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Officially Recognizing Great Agencies Noteworthy in Zedakah and Aiming To Impact Others with Needed Support

Each month Areyvut will be featuring a different organization that is working hard to make a difference in their community.  It is our hope that you will be inspired by the important work these organizations are doing and cause you to get involved in some way.
 
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February 2012 

Organization: Project Medishare

Mission: Project Medishare for Haiti, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit registered in the State of Florida, was founded in 1994 by Dr.'s Barth Green and Arthur Fournier from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.  It is an organization dedicated to sharing its human and technical resources with its Haitian partners in the quest to achieve quality healthcare and development services for all. 

Organization Description: Project Medishare is a Haitian-run non-profit organization that has been in Haiti since 1994, with a focus on community health and development, including programs in healthcare, education, clean water, malnutrition, protection for orphans and vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS treatment, agriculture and women's empowerment programs.  Project Medishare programs include running the only trauma and critical care hospital in Haiti, with the only Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the country caring for Haiti's sickest children, a prosthetics program which has put limbs on over 200 amputees with plans to do hundreds more, a comprehensive rehabilitation program including Haiti's first spinal cord injury unit for paralyzed patients, a major Cholera treatment center, and a school based health center program that treats over 20,000 children a year, and a community health program that provides comprehensive healthcare services to over 100,000 people in Haiti's poorest area

As the first responders less than 24 hours after the earthquake, Project Medishare's team of trauma doctors was setting up a major field trauma hospital on the grounds of the Port-au-Prince airport at the request of Haitian President Rene Preval and the Haitian Ministry of Health.  Project Medishare has been engaged in health and development work in Haiti for more than 15 years and existing relationships allowed us to coordinate seamlessly with the decimated government on the ground.  Just days after the quake, Project Medishare began operating a 300-bed critical care hospital with four operating rooms and an ICU, which acted as a triage area and staging point for U.S. military evacuations in Haiti.  Project Medishare transitioned the field hospital in February to be the first trauma and rehabilitation hospital in Haiti.  Our volunteer staff began offering physical therapy and psychosocial support for those with spinal cord injuries and wounds.  Our team began fitting patients with prosthetic limbs in April and continues to provide the physical therapy necessary to help amputees work toward living normal, productive lives. 
 
Fun Fact: Our organization has an amputee Soccer Team comprised of Project Medishare patients. 

How Can I Help? 

Contact Name: Catherine Murphy
Address: P.O. Box 381208 Miami, FL 33238
Phone: (305) 243-8037
Fax: (305) 243-7045
Email: deoceanview@gmail.com
Website: www.projectmedishare.org