Blog
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Team “Girl Power”: Marlene’s Update
- April 21, 2015
- Category: Medicine, News
We have the “Girl Power” team in Haiti this week. Traveling in Haiti are Marlene Rickert, Kim Sniffen, Pamela Schiavone, and Deborah Ottenheimer. They will be concentrating on women’s health and training team Haiti on the ultrasound. We’ve received some emails and photos about their trip so far! Below is an update from Marlene Rickert.
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Team “Girl Power”: Deborah’s Update
- April 21, 2015
- Category: Medicine, News
We have the “Girl Power” team in Haiti this week. Traveling in Haiti are Marlene Rickert, Kim Sniffen, Pamela Schiavone, and Deborah Ottenheimer. They will be concentrating on women’s health and training team Haiti on the ultrasound. We’ve received some emails and photos about their trip so far! Below is an update from Deborah Ottenheimer.
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Team “Girl Power”: Kim’s Update
- April 21, 2015
- Category: Medicine, News
We have the “Girl Power” team in Haiti this week. Traveling in Haiti are Marlene Rickert, Kim Sniffen, Pamela Schiavone, and Deborah Ottenheimer. They will be concentrating on women’s health and training team Haiti on the ultrasound. We’ve received some emails and photos about their trip so far! Below is an update from Kim Sniffen.
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38 Surgeries This Week!
- February 27, 2015
- Category: Medicine
It’s day four of the 2015 surgical trip. And of course we started our second case at 9:19am, which is the same time we started our first case on the first day. So we’ve improved our efficiency a bit. The team is pumped and ready to have an amazing day today. A busy one, as
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First Day of Surgery
- February 25, 2015
- Category: Medicine
This morning as we were prepping for our first day of surgical procedures, I looked at one of our docs (Dr. Amanda Crow) and told her that I still can’t believe we’re doing this. Not that we’re here in Haiti, but the fact that we are here in Bainet for another surgical trip. I can’t
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Karina Bethje: Surgical Trip
- February 24, 2015
- Category: Medicine
Saturday morning, ten friends met at the airport in Miami to take a 90-minute flight to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Starbucks in hand, we touched down amid rows of cardboard-built shacks, filth infested aqueducts, Tap-Taps (the taxi service of choice among Haitians). Brightly painted buses whose goal is to pile as many
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Valerie McConnell: My First Trip
- January 24, 2015
- Category: News
This post was written by Valerie McConnell, long-time Hope for Haiti Foundation volunteer and supporter. My first trip to Haiti. What an amazing experience! A dream of mine for longer than four years, finally a reality. Was it everything I hoped for? Yes, and much much more! Would I go again? In a heart beat.
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January Medical Trip – Day 1
- January 9, 2015
- Category: Medicine
This post was written by Marlene Rickert, Medical Director for Hope for Haiti Foundation It is a beautiful day in Haiti. Warm and sunny. I am staying in a guesthouse with a group from Minnesota and Wisconsin who is very glad to be away from the cold. Staying in Port-au-Prince is not home like Zorangé, but the
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5 Stories From 2014 You Need To Hear
- December 30, 2014
- Category: News
1. Motorcycle Ambulance The sun was just going down when they brought a boy in with a deep machete wound, a wound down to his tendons. It was obvious he would need surgery and would have to make the trip to Jacmel for it, but there were no vehicles available for use that day. However,
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Raleigh Restaurant Group Raises Funds For Haiti
- December 29, 2014
- Category: Events, News
Donate at any Eschelon restaurant during the month of January and 100% of all funds added to your bill will go directly to HFHF! Eschelon’s “Month of Giving” Eschelon Experiences dedicates four months of each year to give back to its core nonprofit partners. Eschelon asks its guests to come alongside their restaurants in supporting