Links
Related Groups
Healing Hands for Haiti, http://www.healinghandsforhaiti.org a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing rehabilitation medicine to Haiti, who is one of our primary contacts.
Handicap International - In the event of an emergency, natural disaster or conflict, Handicap International gives assistance and aid to vulnerable groups, disabled people, displaced people and refugees. The organisation carries out development work in the areas of health, prevention and social and economic inclusion (access to education, professional training, employment, sport, culture and leisure activities.) Handicap International also supports local disabled peoples' organisations.
Project Medishare is a non-profit registered in the State of Florida, was founded in 1994 by Drs. Barth Green and Arthur Fournier from the University of Miami School of Medicine. It is an organization dedicated to sharing its human and technical resources with its Haitian partners in the quest to achieve quality healthcare and development services for all.
St. Boniface Hospital provides health care to the poor of Haiti in the rural area of Fond des Blancs and the surrounding region. The secondary mission is to improve the quality of life in the Haitian community through educational programs and humanitarian aid. The final mission is to raise the awareness in the United States of the extreme poverty endured by the Haitian people.
Medical Mission Exchange (www.mmex.org), a non-profit organization that provides a free, online database of short- and long-term medical missions serving the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Belize. The goal of Medical Mission Exchange is to facilitate referrals of underserved patients to appropriate medical specialists in Central America and the Caribbean. By sharing information among one another, medical missions can capitalize on each other's strengths and ultimately help link more underserved patients with desperately needed health providers.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) http://www.msf.ca/ or Doctors Without Borders has a clinic in Haiti.
Articles
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Preliminary report on injuries from Handicapp International
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A 'pure heart' in Haiti cares for country's forgotten children - A CBC press release with video links featuring Team November 2008 member Eric Doubt
Helping Haiti Heal Communities lend support through a fundraiser for Healing Hands for Haiti at Georgetown Bowl in October.
Occupational Therapy in the Developing World by Ruth Duggan, Jolyane Aube, Lyndsey Clark, Liz McDonnell and Colleen O’Connell
A Sideroad to Haiti: Helping hands from Halton Hills by Eric Doubt
Part 3: Haiti - CBC "The Current" audio release featuring Paul
Farmer. Great insight into Development and Humanitarian aid in Haiti
from a physician who has been working in the country for decades.
A picture of amputees and the prosthetic situation in Haiti - Bigelow (2004)
An Introduction to Haitian Culture for Rehabilitation Service Providers - Erik Jacobson
Cerebral Palsy in Rural Haiti: The Story of Daphlene Jean - David Campbell
L'Union fail la force - Modern Medicine Meets Traditional Medicine in Haiti - David Campbell
Book Review, Melville J. Herskovits, (1973). Life in a Haitian Valley. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books - David Campbell
The Social and Cultural Impacts of the United States Occupation on the People of Haiti (1915-1934) - David Campbell
A Historical Analysis of Association Football's Impact on Haitian National Identity - David Campbell