New Orleans, LA Clicquez ici pour la version francaise December 20, 2011 Dear Members, Volunteers and Friends of AHDH and Haiti: We would like to take the opportunity to express our deepest gratitude to all of you for the greatest ever support received in one year by AHDH, in 2011. Yes ! The support received over the past 12 months, totals more than 50% of all the funds ever received since our founding, in 1986 (see below). Thanks to all of you, AHDH has a lot to celebrate at the end of this blessed year. Our 255 volunteers who have made the trips with us so far - countless times for many - who have dedicated so much love and compassion to our brethren, they know many occasions were simply moments of miracles: "resuscitating" cholera patients, young Yuri with perforated intestines from typhoid, etc. And that number is bound to go up as we already have more than 36 volunteers committed for our Winter 2012 Medical Mission. 2011 will remain a year of so many challenges, but of so many blessings and so much progress. Indeed, AHDH had an extraordinarily productive year, for His Glory and the benefit of the less fortunate ones: 3 medical missions, numerous surgeries (eyes, cesarean, general surgery, medical and pediatric care, dentistry) acquisition the lot next to the hospital thanks to the combined efforts of AHDH and Solidarite Fribourd-Haiti the cholera crisis response And we were ready to keep our folks alive! with our Cholera Treatment Unit Death, where is thy victory? Staff recruitment -MD, RN AHDH has certainly “walked the walk” ! Engineer Bede Boursiquot and Contractor Jocelyn Wilson In June we inaugurated the Men’s Pavilion present the keys to Dr. Nicole V. Michael, Pediatrician and Pediatrics Pavilion and Charles Rene AHDH Coordinator of Projects, Haiti While there we were visited by another group from Switzerland, HaiZa, and their heart opened up to our effort and the remaining 50% we needed to complete the constructions on the 2nd floor was promised and delivered, with inauguration scheduled for February 2012, during our Winter mission. By August, AHDH’s Président, Dr.Yvelyne Germain-Mccarthy, was in Rivière Froide, a suburb of Port Au-prince, developing some new fronts : Education, Community support and artisanat. She held a one-week art camp for 45 students; delivered new shoes donated by LSUHSC to those living in tents; held a meeting with community leaders to consider AHDH’s help for completing a fountain of purified water for drinking. AHDH has since sent the funds to complete it; interviewed Haitian residents of various socio-economic levels to determine their views on how to rebuild Haiti. She also visited and made videos of the beautiful resorts to encourage tourism - videos will be available soon. For a fund raiser back home, she purchased greeting cards made from bark of banana trees and sculptures representing Haiti Cherie Educating Her Children chiseled from rock with a screw driver. If interested in purchasing these items, please contact her at ygermain@uno.edu Looking ahead to 2012: Soon the word was out for AHDH’s Winter 2012 Medical Mission, February 17 through March 4, 2012, our 52nd since 1986; thirty-six volunteers already have committed and we had to close registration for TEAM-1, leaving room only in TEAM-2, Feb 25 through Mar 4. What can ever be more heart-warming in this season of Advent /Hanukkah/Ramadan,/Kwanza? Dear Members, Volunteers, Friends of AHDH and Haiti: Spending time with family and friends during the holiday season reminds us of the importance of the human connection that binds us all, and also of our "duty of solidarity" to the less fortunate on Earth. Making your donation before the close of the year, with the inherent tax benefits for 2011, makes also financial sense. We hope you will help us with these challenges laying ahead in 2012: 1. MD’s salary for a second year of employment. 2. Funds to hire a couple of additional CNAs (Nurses’ Aids) 3. A Digital Reader for x-ray films (about $24,000) 4. Chemistry Analyser (Electrolytes): $18,000 (www.abaxis.com) 5. CBC machine with platelets: $ quote pending (www.cliawaived.com) 6. Nursing Students' support attending Nursing School (in Haiti), about $1,000/yr; 4 yr program, doing Work Study as a student and committed to return and work for their community for a small salary for 2 years, then regular salary. 7. Build our Outpatient Department on the newly acquired property 8. Miscellaneous medicines and supplies for our surgeries during each trip, about $1,000 9. Patient Monitors for OR and ICU, approximately $1,000 each (www.venturemedical.com) 10. Fetal Monitor 11. Funds to hire a Hospital Administrator 12. Funds to support Riviere Froide Project You can now make a difference and a big one, by the simplest participation you can barely imagine. Help support AHDH's work for the Haitian people and make a donation by either : some families choose See a new Click on pay-pal OR to dedicate their holiday donor's story expenses in a gift to AHDH HERE Or send your donation made to the order of AHDH, Inc., to : 149 W. Lakeview Dr, La Place, LA 70068 so we can continue what we have been proudly doing for 25 years. (Faith w/o works is dead: James 2:20) And remember your donation is 100% tax-deductible and this is the right time of the year to share your blessings in a noble cause … bring relief to our less fortunate brethren. Please, feel free to call me any time or send me a note if you need additional info on any of those challenges that you feel inspired to support. You - each one of you - made AHDH's accomplishments possible throughout the last 25 years, either by your prayers, your positive wishes, your encouragement, your donations, yourselves (255 so far), or a combination. Please, stay in touch and in good health, so we can share our blessings (Mat.25:35; Luke 12:48) For now enjoy the family, the friends, the good life and Happy Holidays. Cordially from AHDH, Charles (Charles Rene, M.D.; F.A.C.O.G. Clinical Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn Dept,Tulane University, NO, LA Co-founder, Past-President, Treasurer, Coordinator of Projects in Haiti Association Haïtienne de Développement Humain, Inc.(AHDH., Inc) 149 W. Lakeview Dr; La Place , LA 70068 Chasrene46@bellsouth.net Tel: (985)-651-7740 ; (504)-957-6233/cel) |
