By Miriam Tuchman | President, Sustainable Healthcare for Haiti
This week was a very busy week for Sustainable Healthcare for Haiti.
First, our internet line was installed by Digicel, just ahead of the launch of primary care services at the (Interim) Sho-Ping Clinic for Health and Education. Starting the third week of April, our partner, PoumonTEK, will begin the healthcare screenings of all 90 children who reside at Foundation Montesinos. The staff will also begin the education sessions with the children on many different aspects of their primary care services. PoumonTEK has also recently agreed to set up the pediatric, ICU and emegrency care services at Hospital St Francois de Sales which means that should any one of the children become seriously ill, s/he will be able to go to this hospital for care. In Haiti, care is divided by region, and if there is no hospital in the specific region (such as the region Foundation Montesinos is in) a hospital in a different region will only take a patient of they have bed space. This is why the relationship between our primary care provider and the hospital is so important.
SHH also held its annual fundraiser in Downtown Boston at the Boston Society of Architect’s event room. The evening was attended by many friends and colleagues as we all remembered Sho-Ping Chin. There was a silent auction and excellent food including home baked goods by our Board of Director and Secretary, Cassie. FOther great food was generously discounted thanks for efforts by our Board of Director, Carolyn.
Several members of the Board are also preparing for the Design Charrette which will take place at Foundation Montesinos this summer. A Charrette is an intensive design effort focused on a single project. In this case, we will be working with all the children to design the new clinic building. The children will be divided by age group and participate in age appropriate design projects in which they express what they believe a building for good health, education and well-being should look like. Their ideas will then be used in the final design documents.
SHH has also secured, and through a crowd funding campaign, paid for, all the remaining bed nets needed to help protect the children and staff from diseases transmitted by mosquitoes that can cause serious illness. Thanks go to great friend and supporter, Anthony, for spearheading this effort.
Our next fundraiser is scheduled for September and will be a trivia night with questions about Architecture, Engineering and Construction. It should be lots of fun so stay tuned! Thank you for all of your support and Happy Spring to all.
By Miriam Tuchman | President, SHH
By Neil LeMieux | Treasurer,Board of Directors, Construction Advisor
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