A course to recovery

An appeal from Ted Constan, Chief Program Officer

Dear supporters,

The earthquake on January 12, 2010 impacted millions of Haitians. But as a parent I can’t imagine the loss and fear that one woman, Rosalind, experienced that day.

Pregnant at the time, Rosalind saw her home destroyed and one of her children fatally injured. Nine days later she went into labor.

But the next part of Rosalind’s story gives me hope.

She came to a clinic at Dadadou—a Port-au-Prince soccer field converted to a muddy tent city with more than 10,000 residents. There under the watchful eyes of one of our nurses—Geneviève Joubert—she gave birth safely.

Thousands of earthquake survivors, like Rosalind and her baby, are alive today because you chose to donate to Partners In Health and Haiti in our darkest hour. I’m writing today because we need your help again.

Help us continue to save lives and invest in projects that put Haiti’s public health system on a course to recovery. Please donate now.

A year after the earthquake Partners In Health still serves more than 100,000 people in three settlement camps in Port-au-Prince and nearly 1.2 million people in the lower Artibonite and Central Plateau regions of Haiti.

Each day we make a real difference. We safely deliver babies. We help amputees walk again. We counsel those bearing emotional scars left by the earthquake. We treat and prevent the spread of cholera. But to help Haiti recover stronger from this disaster we need to do more. We need to build medical facilities capable of providing high-quality care and train more Haitian medical professionals to deliver that care.

Mirebalais hospital meets all of those needs and is the flagship project in our three-year plan to help rebuild and strengthen Haiti’s public health system.

Construction on this massive 320-bed hospital has already begun. Walls are quickly rising on buildings that will house state-of-the-art services not currently available in Haiti. Dorms are being built for the next generation of Haitian doctors, nurses and medical workers who will be trained there.

It’s our largest construction project yet, and we will need your help to open it in January 2012 as planned.

Please stand with Haiti today. Your donation will help save mothers like Rosalind and strengthen Haiti’s devastated public health system.

Sincerely,

Ted Constan
Chief Program Officer
Partners In Health