Promise For Haiti News

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"A Promise Made-A Promise Kept"

Promise for Haiti is a 501(c)3 philanthropic organization dedicated to Health Care, Education, Clean Water, Agriculture and Economic Development.

"Promise for Haiti exists to initiate and nurture the spiritual growth of the people of the Pignon area and to practically demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ to them by providing the region with primary and acute health care, essential sanitation facilities, agricultural training and functional literacy, basic educational opportunity, and economic growth and development."

**JUST A REMINDER**

PROMISE FOR HAITI INC.

PARTNERS' MEETING

JUNE 2, 2012

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

BOARD MEMBER'S MEETING

JUNE 3,2012

MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Donations Make This Healthcare Dream Possible!!

Often we take for granted the excellent healthcare that is offered in the U.S. It is sometimes impossible to view the many minute areas where generous donations are used in Pignon. Hospital de Bienfaisance is dependent on donations, grants, and volunteers to help keep it's services in operation. A portion of this money is used to pay Haitian employees at the hospital who help others in the community along with providing for their family. There are so many needs in Pignon, the funding is a continual commitment. Thanks to this outstanding pediatrician, the children in the community are treated. Promise for Haiti Inc. is grateful for your continued support in Pignon!

Pictures submitted by Mie-Adele Romelus.

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New Clinic Has Grand Opening!

Bev Brand states:

"On Monday the 23rd of April 2012, we had the grand opening for the Jaipur Limb project at Hopital Bienfaisance de Pignon.It was an exciting day as the new Jaipur Limb Project opened its new clinic on April 23, 2012 at Hospital Bienfaisance in Pignon. The new Jaipur Clinic is a gift from Rotary and includes the Limb Workshop, where prosthetic limbs are fitted and made, the Goose House, where visiting doctors will stay as they teach and work with patients, and a dorm for patients to stay as their new prosthetic limbs are being fitted and they are in rehabilitation. Rotary also donated a Toyota Land Cruizer to pick up patients from remote locations who will be fitted at the clinic. The first patients arrived the week of April 23 and 25 more patients have been identified and will be arriving soon. The Jaipur Project will be a great addition to the services Hospital Bienfaisance provides. Pictured are representatives from the hospital and Rotary as the new clinic celebrated its grand opening. Thank you, Rotary!"

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Bio Med Training in Haiti Gets Rewarded!

On April 25, 2012, a ceremony was given for 24 students who came from thirteen hospitals in Haii to attend the Bio Med training at the Pignon Hospital.The certificates were given after completion of 4 sessions /Modules. Many smiling faces are shown in the pictures below.

Vicki Brentin, former President of the Houston Haiti Recovery Initiative, writes about the Bio Med training.

Bio Medical Equipment Repair and Training Project Sponsored by Rotary Districts 5890 and 7020 (Houston Area and Caribbean Rotary Clubs)

"Haiti's first biomedical equipment repair training program just concluded its first year of instruction with amazing success. The Rotary sponsored program contemplated four (2-week) sessions comprising Module A, hosted at Hopital Bienfaisance in Pignon.

We began the first classes in October 2011 with 24 students from 13 different institutions throughout Haiti and finished the last set of classes in April 2012 with 100% of the original students in the program. The primary objective of the Haiti Biomedical Equipment Repair Training Program (BMET) was to establish a training center that could draw participants from public and private medical institutions throughout Haiti. As a result, hospitals around the country will be able to maintain and repair existing medical equipment, reducing their dependency upon medical missions from overseas for continual replacements.

Haitian doctors will be able to offer their patients the proper care without being hampered by malfunctioning equipment and ultimately their patients will benefit from more consistent, reliable and timely treatment. Moreover, the program will ultimately over time create highly skilled jobs for Haitian Nationals. Billy Tenninty, with over 20 years of teaching bio med repair in the developing world, is the program manager and primary instructor. Rotary Leaders Past District Governor Sunny Sharma, Past Club Presidents Vicki Brentin and John Collier from Houston as well as District Governor Dr. Guy Theodore and Past Club President Claude Surena from Haiti provide management oversight.

We just returned from a very rewarding visit to the last session and the District 7020 Conference in Haiti. Our heads were spinning with amazing success stories recounted by the students and doctors as well. We intend to begin Module B for the existing set of students in September 2012 and will again have 4 (2-week) sessions. In addition, we expect to establish a new entering class for up to 25 students that will repeat Module A. Support for the first year of the program came from the Rotary Donor Designated Funds for Haiti as well as from Houston and Haiti Rotary Clubs. For more information about the program or to offer support, please contact: Haiti: Rotahtaskforce@gmail.com U.S.A.: ssharma@sunbeltmedical.com jcollierhouston@comcast.net Vicki@brentin.com."

Pictures submitted by Evenel Osias,hospital administrator.