A series of plugs for Partners In Health/Zanmi Lasante:

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This is a signal boost for a charity doing important work in Haiti.

From Tracy Kidder's op-ed in today's NYTimes:

At least one has not been crippled by the earthquake. Partners in Health, or in Haitian Creole Zanmi Lasante, has been the largest health care provider in rural Haiti. (I serve on this organization’s development committee.) It operates, in partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Health, some 10 hospitals and clinics, all far from the capital and all still intact. As a result of this calamity, Partners in Health probably just became the largest health care provider still standing in all Haiti.

Fortunately, it also offers a solid model for independence — a model where only a handful of Americans are involved in day-to-day operations, and Haitians run the show.

From Peter Rothberg's blog in The Nation:

One of the best, Partners In Health, has been operating in the country since 1987, originally to deliver health care to the residents of Haiti's mountainous Central Plateau region. PiH now also operates clinics in Port au Prince and other major Haitian cities. With hospitals and a highly trained medical staff in place, the group is already mobilizing resources and preparing plans to bring medical assistance and supplies to areas that have been hardest hit. Donations to help earthquake relief efforts will be quickly routed to the disaster.

(I don't know where the contradiction in the above quotes comes from. See PIH's own news updates for more details.)

Mark Blumenthal at pollster.com says:

You can make an online donation to Partners in Health on their website. According to this detailed update on what they are doing to help, their "greatest need is financial support."

Disclaimer: I have no connection with PIH.

Comments

[bex77]

Thanks for sharing this! This group was also the one recommended today by the biggest union at Harvard. PIH is affliated with the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. They've been in Haiti for over 25 years.