Haiti for a Year

In 2008, I moved to Les Cayes, Haiti to live out my dream of changing the health status of the poorest country this side of the planet, by practicing "political medicine." This blog begins by telling my story of when I first moved to Haiti until now, as a second year medical student. I partner with non-profits to train rural Haitian youth to become community health workers in their villages, empowering a people to take control over their own health and save their own lives.

Friday, October 31, 2008

$12,000 Raised So Far!!!

Thanks to the help of many, I've received $12,000 in pledges thus far for the marathon that I'm running in an effort to fund much of the work I've been involved in these last 5 months! If you can pledge any amount at all, please do so! We're a long way from the $60,000 goal!

If you pledged:
$1/mile x 26.2 miles ($26.20), it would take 1,832 pledges to reach my goal.
$2/mile x 26.2 miles ($52.40), it would take 916 pledges to reach my goal.
$5/mile x 26.2 miles ($131.00), it would take just 366 pledges to reach my goal.
$10/mile x 26.2 miles (262.00), it would take only 183 pledges to reach my goal.

TO PLEDGE, simply email me at willinhaiti@gmail.com

TO MAKE A DONATION, please make checks payable to:
Theo’s Work, INC.
2303 West Market Street
Greensboro, NC 27403
Memo: Will’s Medical Mission

You can also donate using a credit card by visiting Pwoje Espwa’s website at freethekids.org

You can follow up your donation with an email to inquiries@freethekids.org to designate your donation to "Will's Medical Mission."

Thanks! -WILL

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I am a second year medical student at Brown University with a degree in public health. I have been working in rural Haiti since 2008 developing public health education and training programs, bringing health care to areas of Haiti where there are no doctors. When I graduated from college, I deferred medical school and lived in Haiti for a year. This blog tells my story of how I created a public health program that changed the health status of a 600-child orphanage in southern Haiti.

I have recently partnered with the large non-profit organization, Hope For Haiti. Together, we are bringing my model training program to more than 40 schools and 37 clinics in southern Haiti. To learn more, please visit my official website at www.willinhaiti.org

My passion is for what I call "political medicine." I am striving to change the face of medicine, how it is practiced, to whom it is distributed, and how it is defined through policy change on an international level, securing health care as a human right.

I believe in a universal standard of health care for all people.

Wanna talk? Email me at willinhaiti@gmail.com

To Make A Donation

Please donate to Will in Haiti through Hope For Haiti. Click on the link below to be routed to their donation site. Please indicate Will’s Public Health Program in the Special Instructions to the Seller section if you are donating through Hope for Haiti’s paypal site.

Via Credit Card:
Click here to make a secure online donation:

http://www.hopeforhaiti.com/donations.php

Via Check:
Make check payable to Hope For Haiti and mail to:

Hope for Haiti

1021 5th Avenue North

Naples, FL 34102

In the memo line, please write ‘Will’s Public Health Program.’ If you would like to donate towards my travel expenses, please write ‘Will's Transportation’ in the memo line.

In kind donations are also accepted, such as frequent flyer miles (through AA and Delta) goods and services, etc. Please contact me for more information and if you would like to donate and have your business recognized on willinhaiti.org

Hopeforhaiti.com is the official website of Hope For Haiti, which is a 501(c)3 registered non-profit. Donations are tax-deductible.

Thank you for your support!!! None of what we do is possible without you!