By Miriam Tuchman | President, Sustainable Healthcare for Haiti
While our regular activities continue in Haiti (We are in the process of constructing the clinic building, the expanded water filtration system that can also serve the community for a fee is being installed, and we are providing weekly healthcare and education to our 90 children), we have been pretty active at our home base in Boston as well.
Over the past few months, Board members have attended conferences in the hope of recruiting new Board Members. Our progress both in the area of construction as well as programming means more work for our volunteer Board members and we hope to find others who are interested in joining us.
We also presented at an Engineers Without Borders conference at Harvard. The conference itself was about learning from failure and this allowed us to give some deep thought as to what we've accomplished but also what we have not accomplished over our ten years in existence. It was also very helpful to attend the seminars and learn from others who told stories and gave analysis of failure. We were most profoundly struck by the students in the audience, though, and their desire to understand how to be global citizens with compassion and kindness while forging change and ensuring progress.
And finally, we presented at a career day at a local high school. This event brought us two high school seniors who were interested in interning for SHH for a month. (The school has an internship requirement of all seniors.) Since SHH is an all-volunteer organization, these students brought us much needed administrative help as well as some social media savvy.
A quick update on Christa- She has been fitted with her prosthesis and is working hard in therapy to learn to walk. She looks amazing and her smile brings us all to tears.
Our big announcement is that we have chosen a date in September of this year for the dedication of our new building to be named the Sho-Ping Chin Clinic for Healthcare and Education in memory of one of our co-founders who died in June 2016. We have a full day of activities planned. We welcome all donors to join us. Please feel free to contact us directly if you would like come.
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