On this 2nd year anniversary of the earthquake, the US staff at C2C continues to stand in solidarity with the millions of Haitians who lost loved ones, their homes, their livelihoods and their access to health care. As I read the commentaries and funding reports leading up today, I remain disheartened at the larger picture [...]
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–Al Jazeera’s Sebastian Walker asks why a system that was designed to help Haitians ended up exacerbating their misery.– Haiti: After the Quake, posted with vodpod
Upon reviewing the above video of Sebastian Walker’s incredible reports from Haiti starting just 24 hours after the earthquake in January 2010 through September 2011, it leaves one scratching his [...] C2C’s assistant clinic manager and a lab tech from Grace Children’s hospital compare notes on the number of diagnostic tests performed this month. Despite the challenges of occasional pharmacy stock-outs, diagnostic equipment failures, and staff shortages, Containers 2 Clinics continues to deliver quality antenatal care to the women and children in central Port-au-Prince. And word [...] When I arrived on Monday, December 5th, it was my twelfth trip to Haiti. As C2C’s Director of Operations, I first came to Haiti just sixty days after the devastating January 2010 earthquake to work in partnership with AmeriCares to develop clinic sites in a country whose health system had reverted to chaos. C2C entered [...]  Secretary Clinton with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah Last week, C2C participated in the final round of the Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development grant (www.savinglivesatbirth.net) in Washington DC. More than 600 applicants submitted proposals to the RFA issued by a consortium of USAID, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign [...] A recent article in the New York Times offers a much altered story of death and destruction vis-à-vis the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Here it is, by the numbers: The report said as many as 895,000 people moved into camps after the earthquake, not the 1.5 million estimated by the International Organization for Migration, an [...] This is an excerpt from an article in the Huffington Post today: One of the many results of technological advancement is that nonprofits can no longer ignore the world outside their doors. Nor can they realistically expect to survive if they are unwilling or unable to embrace the developments around them… I don’t know how [...] This slideshow was made by Dave Melville, friend and supporter of C2C, down in Port-au-Prince with Liz last week. C2C was asked to present at a conference of Fulbright scholars from the developing world – all studying at universities in the US – on the intersection between innovations in science and technology and global health issues. There were about 80 scholars in attendance and two other panelists in addition to me: Dr. Bill Rodriguez [...] |
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