Donna’s Reflections on her Trip to Haiti as a Team Lead for Rose Haiti Healthcare. I can’t believe that we are coming up to one month since we arrived to work with HAS. The trip was such a positive experience for me and the team. The way in which we were welcomed and the obvious … Read More
Dr Julie Morin’s reflections on her first project with Rose Haiti Healthcare Education: “What I remember most about my stay at the Albert-Schweitzer Hospital is the enthusiasm of the participants for the training. Throughout the course, we were able to appreciate their desire to learn, their concentration, their ability to help each other and their … Read More
Haiti August 2018, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Deschapelles, Melissa’s reflections on her first project with Rose Haiti Healthcare Education: “Last November, when I received the email about Rose Charity looking for volunteers to teach NRP in Haiti, I knew instantly I wanted to be part of this. When I was in nursing school, I wished to … Read More
How to Save a Baby with $450 We are training nurses in Haiti in newborn resuscitation and we need your help! Almost 1 in 5 babies born in Haiti need some sort of intervention at birth to help them breathe on their own. We need to purchase a Premie Baby Task Trainer to … Read More
French Healthcare Textbooks Our 2016 trip offered us the opportunity to purchase and provide much needed current French language healthcare textbooks. We took a set of foundational nursing textbooks that cover much of the content taught at Canadian nursing schools, costing $742.00. We also sent 5 neonatal resuscitation textbooks to Haiti before we went, so … Read More
We need to purchase a Premie Baby Task Trainer to support our ongoing educational efforts It’s hard to believe, but this premature baby task trainer costs over $450.00 CDN. We need this task trainer to help our educational efforts at the Adventist Hospital in Carrefour, Haiti. Change and improvement is achievable with ongoing training that … Read More
We have renewed enthusiasm as a result of our 2016 trip to Haiti and an opportunity to offer longer term follow-on with the Haitian Adventist Hospital in Carrefour. This hospital has a huge support network stemming from the Adventist Church and Adventist Health International. www.haitiadventisthospital.org We saw a change in leadership that excited us … Read More
The stats alone speak to the need but why try to save these newborns when a family can just try again, if their baby doesn’t survive? This is harsh talk for sure, but something that I often hear both within Haiti and in North America. It’s a different reality in Haiti with so much poverty … Read More
On Jan 5, 2012, the first graduation ceremony since the earthquake, took place at the State University School of Nursing in Port-aux-Prince Haiti. As each graduating student stood up to receive her award she honored five of her classmates who had lost their lives when the school collapsed. Over 200 students were killed that day … Read More
The first hours in a baby’s life are critical, they need quick interventions to help them breathe and care to stay warm and safe. Haiti has one of the world’s highest infant mortality rates. After the earthquake, we asked the Haitian nursing authorities how we could help, and they responded by asking us for neonatal … Read More
