Clinton Global Initiative boosts health programs in Haiti. Anpil bagay ap fèt

Clinton Global Initiative boosts health programs in Haiti,

Miami Herald, March 8, 2009
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/939701.html


Former President Bill Clinton established the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005
to help make changes in the lives of the world's poor and destitute by
partnering governments and nonprofit humanitarian organizations with those who
can help.

In Haiti, CGI has teamed up with Partners In Health, which works with
AIDS patients and supports health programs in Haiti's Central Plateau region.
Its founding director is Harvard University medical educator and infectious
disease specialist Dr. Paul Farmer.

Among what CGI has helped facilitate on behalf of PIH, and the people living in
the Central Plateau:

• The enrollment of 8,573 students this year, and daily school lunches for
9,793 students. The $3.4 million over three years is being also supported by
Digicel, a cellphone company on the ground in Haiti.

• A review of the solar market in Haiti with support from Good Energies, and
assessments of 10 of the public health facilities PIH runs in Haiti.

Phase two will be installation of a major system at one PIH site. Estimated value:
$150,000 over two years.

• The shipment of 20,000 pairs of rubber ankle boots from TOMS.

They will go to patients in PIH clinics and members of the community who are at risk of
getting the skin disease tungiasis. Shoes will also go to outfit community
health workers who make daily visits to patients receiving HIV or Tuberculosis
treatment.

Another 30,000 pairs of shoes/boots from TOMS will be distributed by
PIH later in the year.

• The distribution of 500,000 Pur water treatment sachets, donated by Proctor
& Gamble, to families without access to clean water as a result of the
hurricanes.

• The construction of a bridge. With support from Digicel and in cooperation
with the U.N. Stabilization mission, MINUSTAH, PIH is moving ahead with plans
to build a bridge to link the town of Boucan Carre, where PIH runs a public
hospital and where there are two large schools, to the rest of the Central
Plateau.

• The building ''back better'' of the health infrastructure in Mirebalais
with support from Humanity United. PIH has purchased an ambulance and has
solicited designs for a new public hospital in Mirebalais.

Ministry of Health staff in Mirebalais is being supplemented by PIH.

I would like to write a letter to Dr Farmer can anyone publish his adress in haiti or his email adress.

Eseye saa, Malis,
Bòn chans

http://www.pih.org/who/contact.html

Mèsi anpil .Mwen pral ekri li yon let.