Please Stand With Haiti
For the past two days I have spent most of my work hours focused on the situation in Haiti. The organization I work for has an office in Haiti, with 33 staff, all of whom were deeply affected by the earthquake, including the loss or injury of loved ones, and catastrophic property destruction.
This isn’t a bike post. This is a simple request that you pitch in. I have selected Partners in Health as the medical organization I think is the best recipient of your support at this time. They have operated in Haiti for over 20 years, are fully equipped at multiple sites, operate with low administrative costs, and are scaling up very rapidly on the ground. I have visited their main hospital site in Cange (featured in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains), and I know the quality of their work first hand.
Partners in Health has set up a new website at StandWithHaiti.org.
There are also other good agencies working rapidly to respond in Haiti, including MSF.
Please stand with Haiti.
Thanks for this, Tom. I was waffling about what org to support but was leaning toward PIH because of Paul Farmer/Mountains beyond Mountains.
BTW, we told the kids about the situation in Haiti and asked them how they wanted to help. Their idea was a lemonade stand — seasonally adjusted to hot cider — with all proceeds/donations to PIH.
So tomorrow or Sunday (depending which has better weather), we’ll be packing up the Xtracycles with the Coleman stove, cider, a table, and donations cup and heading to Greenlake or the BG trail.
If anyone is out for a ride and wants a warm-up, stop by!
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I, too, have felt that PIH is the organization to direct our donations. It is good to have that confirmed by others. I will stand with your organization’s workers in Haiti, with our friend Marco’s sisters, with all the families suffering.
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In addition to scaling up in Port-au-Prince, where many of their doctors live when they are not on duty at PIH’s rural sites, PIH’s clinical sites across Haiti, which were unaffected by the quake, are seeing a tremendous upsurge in patients who have left Port-au-Prince in search of care.