Thank you!

One way to prevent cholera and other diseases is to promote good hygiene practices.  Many are willing, but do not have access to sanitation services.  It is common for some to have to use the gardens because they don’t have a latrine or outhouse.  The community group, GVADK, has built

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children’s smiles light up the world

“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” -Dr Seuss “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” -Frederick Douglas “Stay a child while you can be a child.” -Stephen Sondheim  

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New admits this past week

NOELCA She is 3 years old and weighs 23 pounds.  She has abcess in her rectum and has kwashiorkor.  She had a rough weekend with lots of pain and drainage but is finally feeling better today.  Noelca has one living sister.  She is currently on the medika mamba program. JOHN

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Merci for Meds!

With your donations (that we asked for here), RHFH was able to purchase medications that will last us for months and months to come.  The value of the medications is $464,835.75 and we were able to purchase them for only $11,169.00!  There were 38 pallets of medications and it weighed 29,500 pounds.  This was

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Hurricane Sandy Update

The eye of the hurricane is well past us.  Haiti managed to not get hit by the center of the storm.  However, the country is experiencing a vast amount of rain and consequential flooding.  Looking at the radar map, it doesn’t seem that the rain will be over anytime soon.   Here in

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It’s Here! It’s Here!

The fall shipping container has arrived!  The container came out of customs last week and began being unloaded on Friday.  Since then, there has been a lot of sorting, organizing, cleaning and clearing space for storage.  Shelves of medicine are stocked and some are absolutely full!   Do you know what

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