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Supporting One of Haiti’s Most Important Natural Resources: Breast Milk

The substantial positive impact of breastfeeding is immeasurable because breast milk, and the associated practices designed to support the breastfeeding mother, are crucial to infant survival. Read More

The Blood Bank at Hôpital Sacré Coeur

The blood bank section of the lab was started in 2005 and is regulated by the Haitian Red Cross headquartered in Port au Prince. Read More

Spring 2012 Construction Update: Your Funds at Work

As we begin a new year, we are still focusing on completing projects from 2011. Read More

Jeff Rodriguez: Master Electrician & Electrical Engineer

Jeff Rodriguez, affiliated with Power Analytical Incorporated of San Bruno, CA, volunteered to help us create an underground electrical grid and connect our new generators recently installed at Hôpital Sacré Coeur. Read More

Doug Rendleman: Design Engineer

Doug Rendleman, a partner at A. J. Brown Incorporated of Chesterfield, MO, was the lead volunteer responsible for designing and constructing our General Services building. Read More

Karl Spears: Design Engineer

Karl Spears is a design engineer who works at Bobcat Corporation, a subsidiary of Doosan Company and has been coming to Haiti for several years now with his wife, who is a nurse. Read More

Construction Engineers Make Lasting Changes

One of the most important aspects of our undertaking in Haiti is the opportunity to teach our brothers and sisters new talents. Read More

Clubfoot Clinic

In May 2011, a clubfoot treatment clinic was opened at Hôpital Sacré Coeur. Clubfoot is the most common serious musculo-skeletal birth defect in both the US and Haiti, occurring in approximately 1/1000 births. Read More

Adventures in Haiti

In 1998, I was newly retired from the local Trauma One Center Hospital (Shands) in Jacksonville, Fl. where I spent a thirty year nursing career in the OR. During that time, I came to... Read More

George M. Fipp, M.D.’s Legacy Still Energizes Jacksonville, Florida

Serving others had been a lifetime calling for Jacksonville, Florida orthopedic surgeon, George M. Fipp, and Haiti topped his list of medical mission and philanthropic work. Read More