Posted in VHP in Haiti!, Voices from VHP on Mar 8th, 2010 No Comments »
hey everyone, family dearest and all, with lots of Deet and excitement in the air, we are through the airport craziness and waiting in the final line to board the plane. i have amused myself for the past few hours, practicing my creole with the other passengers who are waiting with us. it’s so thrilling […]
Posted in VHP in Haiti!, Voices from VHP on Mar 8th, 2010 6 Comments »
As we wait patiently to board our flight from Fort Lauderdale to Cap Haitien, where we will be based for the next two days, the excitement is building. We know that all sense of time and flow will change from the moment our flight lands, and we are all ready for the adventure ahead. Sixteen […]
Posted in VHP in Haiti!, Voices from VHP on Mar 6th, 2010 3 Comments »
Hello! Kristen here at the Meade house with the whole crew as we are wildly packing all our personal possessions with medical supplies, school supplies, goodie bags for all the schoolchildren, and every last possible thing into the 32 pieces of luggage we are flying down with us. Everyone is here: Lila “Liler”, Andrew “Dr. […]
Posted in Events, Voices from VHP on Feb 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
On January 26th, the panel discussion “Understanding the Haiti Crisis,” helped a roomful of Vassar community members to grapple with the implications of the Haitian earthquake, and to think more critically about the disaster. Vassar professors Brian McAdoo and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, organized the program, bringing in Haitian community member Marc Coq and student panelists Nicole […]
Posted in Haiti News, Voices from VHP on Jan 13th, 2010 9 Comments »
Our thoughts, our hearts, and our prayers are with our friends and partners in Haiti. The artists, artisans, and galleries we work with are all located in or near Port-au-Prince. We fear that many of them have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and perhaps worse. We will be organizing relief efforts to help our partners […]
Posted in Events, Initiatives, Voices from VHP on Nov 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
written by Michael Xie This year, Michelle Duong and I (Michael Xie) co-chair the Health Initiative of the Vassar Haiti Project. While almost everyone in United States these days is debating over the trillion dollar bill on health care, do you know that per capita, Haiti spends about $83 annually on health care (in U.S., the number […]
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