Dear Jacob,
Yesterday, it was my privilege to testify before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations at their hearing on “Haiti: from Rescue to Recovery and Reconstruction.”
I opened my testimony thus: “Today, my hope is to do justice to Haiti not by chronicling the events of the past two weeks, which are well known to [...]
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The people of Haiti need our help right now! Buy a “HELP HAITI” Tee for just $10 today and 100% of the proceeds afters costs will go directly to assisting Partners in Health (PIH) and their ambitious Haiti relief efforts. PIH has over 20 years of experience working in Haiti. The cost is $5 per shirt to make, [...]
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“PIH co-founder Paul Farmer* penned this op-ed in last Sunday’s Miami Herald:
A few months ago, I joined President Clinton as a volunteer to, in his words, help Haiti “build back better” after a series of storms in 2008 destroyed an estimated 15 percent of already beleaguered Haiti’s GDP. We had just been meeting about [...]
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Hello everyone,
I have now returned from Sene District and am in Kumasi. Today we finished our last day of research and training, which all went very well…..big relief. So another really cool story about U2H. My boss and I had a meeting with the Provost of Health Sciences, the Dean of the Medical School, the [...]
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Hi everyone,
The meeting w/Dr. Ofosu went great. We will arrange for the payment for the container very soon, as he has it approved by the regional and district chief directors.
The new ward is starting to be built. I have taken a few pictures. I also have an updated list of equipment which will be very [...]
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Purchase your tickets online today for our Third Annual U2H Benefit Dinner, in fourth floor Rackham Hall on Sunday, April 11, 2010. Come eat great food and support a great cause. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Anthony Ofosu, visiting all the way from Sene District, Ghana.
We are sending 40 hospital beds to furnish a [...]
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“How many of you are going to be doctors? Are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians and engineers?”
Presidential nominee John F. Kennedy said these words in front of the Michigan Union on October 14, 1960 to a group of excited students and onlookers. The speech is widely considered the unveiling of JFK’s Peace [...]
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Hello from Tamale!
The supplies are in the hospital and being used. The first supplies used were many of the different surgical tools we used. They were used in addition to some of the beds we sent in a Cleft Palate clinic that was set up by some visiting European doctors. So I went around with [...]
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U2H member Joey Perosky is currently in Ghana, working for the University of Michigan Clinical Simulation Center. For the program, he will be “training midwives and traditional birth attendants on how to manage postpartum hemorrhage using bi-manual compression,” and doing other training in Kumasi, Tamale Teaching Hospitals, Savelegu District, and Sene District.
While there, Joey will [...]
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