Rotary Group Study Exchange

From The Field- By Elizabeth Davison, Executive Director – April 30, 2013 This week the Naples office was honored to participate in Rotary International’s Group Study Exchange, a program that provides cultural and vocational opportunity for young business professionals to be paired with Rotary districts in different countries. When local businessman and Pelican Bay Rotarian […]

Notes from a School Visit, April 2013

By Arianne Pingledis, Program Manager Hurricane season may be behind us, but rain has been falling steadily in Les Cayes this week.  It’s not enough to cause serious flooding, perhaps, but it is enough to disrupt schools that lack proper classrooms – something I saw firsthand while visiting one of our education partners a few […]

Transport Assistance Can Save a Life

Jennifer Lang, Program Director – April 1, 2013 A healthy and happy Kettia! Kettia Jacobs is a thirty-five year old woman who suffers from severe anemia. She came to our primary healthcare facility, the Infirmary Saint Etienne in downtown Les Cayes, from her home in Bergeaud –with trouble breathing. Our Infirmary Director, Dr. Elmide Nazaire, […]

Raymond Lucien

Raymond Lucien – Hope for Haiti’s Vehicle Manager “When I think of Raymond, I think of the day he made me a road,” says incoming Country Director Jessica Jean-Francois with a smile of remembrance. “We were on our way to a rural school site visit. They had been working on building a road, but there […]