A SHORT TERM PUSH WITH A LONG TERM PLAN

Posted on 06/23/10

This folio, featuring the photography of noted VII Photographer Ron Haviv and an introductory essay by Simon Winchester, was initiated by the Institute to address this year’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti.

7.0 Magnitude
230,000 people killed
3,000,000 people affected in a country where 85 percent of the population was already living in poverty

RESPE: Haiti will travel to Balan, Haiti during the summer of 2010 to implement a maternal health initiative with the $10,000 Davis Peace Project grant it was recently awarded. The Nesans Project, a collaboration between Tufts students and Balan community members, consists of constructing a sanitary birthing ward in Balan's clinic as well as facilitating maternal health trainings for the town's traditional birth attendants. The Haitian Coalition of Somerville, one of RESPE's Boston-based partners, is helping procure medical supplies and equipment for the maternal health ward.

RESPE Member Ashley Allison reports in GlobalPost from the Dominican Republic about the January 12th earthquake in Haiti. 

More Info: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/study-abroad/100113/next-door-dr-they-feel-oceans-apart

November- January 2008

- Students planned first trip to Haiti.

January 2008:

- RESPE: Boston’s assessment trip. We listened to Balan’s priorities, which included health, education, and finance; met with community leaders; and established RESPE: Balan, which guides our research and identifies local resources and needs.

Spring 2008:

- We strengthened our Boston ties with our current partners, the Christian Haitian Entrepreneurial Society (CHES), Engineers Without Borders (EWB) at Tufts, the Haitian Coalition (HC), and the Tufts MPH Program.