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July 14, 2010
As I'm sure you are aware, Monday was the six month anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. In light of this, I thought you would be interested to hear of our progress on a number of programs and initiatives.
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June, 2010
Maine Walks for Haiti Wishes to Thank...
Thanks to the efforts of many volunteers, sponsors, and people determined to walk rain or shine, the June 5 Maine Walks for Haiti walk around Portland's Back Cove attracted about 300 people...
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May, 2010
On the Ground after the Earthquake: Impact in the North
While the epicenter of the January 12 earthquake was in the country’s capital, 85 miles to the south of Cap-Haitien, the impact was felt throughout the country...
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May, 2010
After the Earthquake: Addressing Both Short-Term and Long-Term Needs
Immediately after the earthquake, the Haitian public health system’s regular governmental support from Port-au-Prince was cut off...
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May, 2010
Maine-Haiti Consortium Developing Protocols for Improved Diabetes Care in Cap-Haitien
Extreme poverty, illiteracy, lack of material resources, and political instability all contribute to a high chronic disease burden in Haiti — including diabetes...
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May 20, 2010
A Portland-based charitable organization leads an effort to deliver much-needed supplies to a hospital in Cap-Haitien.
PORTLAND — A container packed with medical equipment and relief supplies left Portland on Wednesday, bound for a hospital in Haiti to treat survivors of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake...
Visit the Portland Press Herald site to read the article.
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April 6, 2010
Addressing the Long-Term Effects of the Earthquake
Update from Cap-Haitien
Dear Friends,
Our profound thanks to all of you who have given us encouragement and support following the January 12 earthquake in Haiti...
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March 29, 2010
Belfast doctor finds humility, optimism in Haiti experience
Dr. Carol Kuhn may be better known in Waldo County as a family physician at Seaport Family Practice — but lately she has been developing a reputation in Haiti as the doctor from Maine who always comes back to help the impoverished island nation...
Visit the Bangor Daily News site to read the article.
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March 28, 2010
Portland West School Fundraiser
The students at Portland West School have been having weekly bake sales and bottle drives for nearly two months to raise money for Haiti. Today they wrapped up their fundraiser and presented us with a check for over $2,000! They more than doubled their goal and have completely inspired us with their care and hard work. Kudos to all those who made this a success and thank you from the people of Haiti!!
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March 8, 2010
Letter from Haiti: Haitians' pride, faith amaze doctor
Dr. Ann Lemire is an internist-pediatrician specializing in HIV medicine who works for the city of Portland's Public Health Division. As volunteer chair of Konbit Sante's pediatric collaboration, she works with her colleagues in Haiti to improve care for the littlest patients...
Visit the Portland Press Herald site to read the article.
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February 21, 2010
Haiti needs long-term commitment from all of us, Portland doctor says
Letter from Cap Hatien
Dr. Samuel Broaddus, director of the Division of Urology at Maine Medical Center, recently returned from a 10-day trip to Cap Haitien, Haiti, where he led a seven-person surgical team from Maine. He has been working with Portland-based Konbit Sante for years...
Visit the Portland Press Herald site to read the article.
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Nia Maine Haiti Relief Benefit Teacher Dance Jam
Sunday February 28, 2-4pm
Casco Bay Movers
517 Forest Ave Portland, ME 04101
Make a difference for those in need and dance your heart out for the people of Haiti with the Nia Maine Teacher Dance Jam. This event is for Every Body, regardless of age, fitness level or experience.
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February 14, 2010
Konbit Sante doctor sees Haitians' generosity amid despair
Letter from Cap Hatien
Through a note from Cap-Haitien, we begin to understand the impact of the January 12 earthquake in an already underserved and impoverished neighborhood 85 miles from the epicenter. In this note to Dr. Michael Taylor, founder of Konbit Sante, Dr. Eva Lathrop, an OB/GYN, MPH currently living in Atlanta, shares some of what she saw and what she did during her recent working visit in Cap-Haitien.
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February 7, 2010
Doctor's regret: 'My work here is not done'
A psychiatrist treating anguished quake survivors finds there is still a great need for 'comfort and consoling.
Through personal emails between two colleagues, we get an idea of what conditions are like in Cap-Haitien, our sister city in northern Haiti. The excerpts that follow are written by Dr. Ralph Saintfort, a psychiatrist from Rock Island, Illinois, who has been a clinical volunteer with Konbit Sante since 2003.
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February 3, 2010
Maine's generosity helps Konbit Sante make an impact in Haiti
The Maine-affiliated group is working to help earthquake victims, and couldn't do it alone.
By Nathan Nickerson, Executive Director, Konbit Sante
Through personal emails between two colleagues, we get an idea of what conditions are like in Cap-Haitien, our sister city in northern Haiti. The excerpts that follow are written by Dr. Ralph Saintfort, a psychiatrist from Rock Island, Illinois, who has been a clinical volunteer with Konbit Sante since 2003.
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February 1, 2010
Konbit Sante Surgical Team Leaves this Week for Cap-Haitien, Haiti
Dr. Samuel Broaddus, urologist with Maine Medical Center and long-term Konbit Sante Board member and volunteer, leaves Thursday, February 4 for Cap-Haitien, Haiti with a surgical team to help treat people injured in the January 12 earthquake.
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January 28, 2010
Nurses to Travel to Cap-Haitien, as part of Konbit Sante’s Sister City Work
On Saturday, January 30, two area nurses will travel to Cap-Haitien as part of Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership’s ongoing work in Haiti.
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January 31, 2010, the Maine African Film Festival will screen the film Poto Mitan - Haitian women, Pillars of the Global Economy.
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January 26, 2010
“Coins for Konbit” from the Jeffers School in Spring Lake, Michigan
Teacher Jennifer Jettner at the Jeffers School helped students organize a “Coins for Konbit” fundraiser recently at their school.
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January 25, 2010
PSO: Instrumental in helping Haiti
The symphony opens a rehearsal to gather relief donations, its first such fundraiser for another organization.
By ANN S. KIM, Staff Writer, Maine Sunday Telegram
Carol and John Furman seized on the chance to sit in on a rehearsal of the Portland Symphony Orchestra while supporting Haiti earthquake relief efforts at the same time.
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January 24, 2010
Quake spotlights Haiti's distress, nonprofit's resolve
By Matt Wickenheiser, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald
Earthquake victims from the south came in buses, piled into pickups and jammed into cars, driving almost 90 miles to find any care they could - even at Haiti's poorest hospital.
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January 22, 2010
Konbit Sante response aid hits $141,000
A quickly organized telethon at City Hall nets $66,000 in a day for victims in Haiti
By Beth Quimby, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald
The Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership has raised more than $141, 000 to help earthquake response efforts in Haiti.
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January 21, 2010
Making a difference for poorest of the poor
By Matt Wickenheiser, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald
The pickup jostled through craters in the dirt road, pushing farther into Petite Anse, a packed collection of tin shacks, squat cinder block homes and abandoned trucks on the outskirts of Cap Haitien.
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January 20, 2010
Maine-based efforts, donations help Haitian hospital run more smoothly
By Matt Wickenheiser, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald
Women and children crowd up to the door of the Justinian Hospital's pediatric outpatient clinic, waiting to see the health agent, who can help them with basic needs such as vaccinations or checkups.
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January 19, 2010
Portland Symphony Orchestra to conduct fundraiser for Konbit Sante
The Portland Symphony Orchestra has generously opened its Sunday dress rehearsal as a fundraiser for Konbit Sante.
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WGME Ch. 13 to hosted From ME to Haiti telethon to benefit Konbit Sante's Earthquake Recovery Fund
Few organizations know as much about getting medical care into Haiti as an organization based in Portland by the name of Konbit Sante. The organization knows Haiti, because it's been there for a decade as part of a partnership to save lives and improve health care in Cap-Haitien, Portland's sister city. Konbit Sante has long-term goals to help build up Haiti's community health care system. But right now, the focus is much more urgent - trying to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Watch the video.
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January 19, 2010
In Haiti, Portlander lends a hand during after chaotic weekend
Judy Carl, in Cap Haitien to teach English at a hospital, ends up helping caregivers aid dozens of victims.
By Matt Wickenheiser, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald
''Oh, I'm so glad to see you.''
Judy Carl blinked several times as she hugged Nate Nickerson in relief Monday morning.
The Portland woman had been in Cap Haitien for two weeks, volunteering with Portland-based Konbit Sante, teaching English to doctors, nurses, administrators and others at Justinian Hospital.
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January 18, 2010
Konbit Sante builds on background of trust
Justinian Hospital treats scores of quake victims, and the Portland-based nonprofit is there to help.
By Matt Wickenheiser, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald
Roughly 85 victims of Tuesday's earthquake have been treated at Justinian Hospital here, after the city's mayor sent six buses down to Port-au-Prince to collect patients.
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January 17, 2010
Maine group aims to match needs, relief
By Matt Wickenheiser, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald.
Nate Nickerson and the young doctor from Delaware confer while waiting for their bags at the city's airport.
The doctor's got a ride overland into Haiti to Port-au-Prince with a group of Jehovah's Witnesses, and if Nickerson wants to head there with him, he can.
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January 15, 2010
Dear Friends,
Like the rest of the world, we are still reeling from the news of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12. The extent of the devastation is still unknown, but it is great. While the epicenter of the earthquake was near the nation's capital in Port-au-Prince, the nerve-center of Haiti, the whole country is feeling the impact and will continue to feel the impact for a long time.
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January 15, 2010
Martin Luther King Jr. Music & Gospel Concert: A Benefit for Haiti
Dear Friends,
We'd like to thank the Portland branch of the NAACP for their generosity in donating proceeds of their Martin Luther King, Jr. concert on Sunday evening to our efforts to help the people of Haiti. Please join this tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. and enjoy this wonderful gospel music Sunday at the Merrill Auditorium.
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January 14, 2010
A Letter from Mayor Nicholas Mavodones to the City of Portland Regarding the Earthquake in Haiti
Dear friends,
We would like to share this letter that Portland Mayor Nicholas Mavadones sent out yesterday to the people of Portland. We would like to express our deep appreciation to the mayor for his kind words of support for Konbit Sante and for the people of Cap-Haitien.
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July 20, 2009
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere where women are often the sole providers in families that survive on less than a dollar a day. Just 600 miles from our own borders, one in five Haitian children does not survive to the age of five and the rate of maternal mortality is fifty times greater than in the U.S - with a ratio of 680 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births.
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July 1, 2009
Konbit Sante and Direct Relief International Announce Hurricane Preparedness Collaboration
Maine-based Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership and California-based Direct Relief International have teamed up to preposition more than $450,000 worth of critical medical and disaster relief supplies – the contents of a 40 foot container – at the Justinian University Hospital in northern Haiti.
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January 31, 2009
Konbit Sante Releases 2008 Annual Report
January 29, 2009
Maine health care professionals often reach out to help the suffering poor
November 2008
Crafters in Maine and Beyond Launch “Caps to Cap-Haitien” Baby Hat Project
September 2008
New Women’s Unit at Fort St. Michel to be Staffed by Konbit Sante-Sponsored OB/GYN
September 2008
Iconic Signs and Video Orient New Patients at Justinian Hospital
June 2008
Maine Surgeons Invest in Healthy Change in Haiti
June 15, 2008
FIGHTING AIDS IN HAITI: PEPFAR AND THE GLOBAL FUND
June 6, 2008
April 2008
Konbit Sante Sends Ninth Medical Shipment to Haiti
March 21, 2008
Konbit Sante Secures Funds for Pediatric Emergency Room in Cap-Haitien, Haiti
December 2007
Konbit Sante Annual Campaign Targets Four Major health Challenges in Northern Haiti
September 2007
Konbit Sante Sends Eighth Shipment of Medical Equipment and Supplies to Haiti
August 1, 2007
Konbit Sante Receives Grant for Hookworm Treatment in Haiti
June 13, 2007
Konbit Sante Receives $50,000 Grant for Infection Control
April 2007
Nancy Nickerson to Run Boston Marathon for Konbit Sante
March 2007
Fire Destroys Konbit Sante and University of Miami Office in Haiti
February 2007
Konbit Sante Sends Seventh Shipment of Medical Equipment and Supplies to Haiti
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