Sign up for iGive, search and Project Medishare receives $1

By Jennifer Browning
Between now and midnight, each new person who joins iGive using this link right here and does just one web search on the iGive site Project Medishare will receive a dollar.
Just think, 5,000 sign ups and a search gives Project Medishare $5,000. While there is no purchase necessary, if you search more [...]

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Multi-task your giving: Raise money for Project Medishare and holiday shop at the same time

By Jennifer Browning
Double your giving spirit this holiday season by doing your shopping online with online partners like GoodShop, iGive, and Donation Street. Instead of bracing yourself for a season of jam-packed parking lots and crowded stores find that perfect something for that perfect someone, and raise money for Project Medishare at the same time. [...]

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Watch Dr. Barth Green today in a panel discussion about Millennium Development Goals in Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
Dr. Barth Green, Project Medishare’s co-founder, will be joining UN’s Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer and Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph during the panel discussion “Meeting the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A progress report from the poorest country in the Americas.”
The panel [...]

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Big names come to Haiti in search of investment

By Jennifer Browning
Over the weekend, big names congregated in conference rooms in a luxury hotel in Haiti. Big names like Levi and Gap were interested in the potential of American trade legislation that wipes out duties on apparel assembled in Haiti. Citibank and Scotiabank were on hand to discuss loans.
With the State Department downgrading its [...]

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Vote for Healthcare in Haiti, and help Project Medishare win $10,000

By Jennifer Browning
University of Texas Health and Science Center in San Antonio, one of our partnering universities, entered Healthcare for Haiti as an idea to support on Ideablob.com in order to help them raise money for their medical trip in January, and to help funding towards the nutrition center that’s currently being built by Project [...]

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Global Syndicate supports Project Medishare at fundraising event in Washington D.C.

By Jennifer Browning
Come To Haiti! Join The Global Syndicate and The Haiti Project as they take you back to a time when tourists flocked to Haiti for a taste of paradise! The event will be in Washington D. C. on Saturday, September 26 from 1-4 p.m. and will take place at the home of Marcia [...]

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United Nations notes dramatic improvements in security in Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
According to About.com Guide to Caribbean travel, Robert Curley things are looking up for Haiti in terms of travel.
The United Nations has stated that the crime rate is down. In addition to the overall crime, murder rates have decreased and the rate of kidnappings in Haiti has fallen off dramatically this year.
Haiti [...]

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Diaspora Marketplace gives Haitians living abroad opportunity to invest in Haiti’s future

By Jennifer Browning
The United States Agency for International Development [USAID] is partnering with Fondation Sogebank, a philanthropic institution of Haiti’s largest commercial bank, to establish the Haitian Diaspora Marketplace.
A two-year pilot program, the Haitian Diaspora Marketplace is designed to encourage Haitians living abroad to contribute to Haiti’s economic development through direct investment in productive business [...]

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New U.S. ambassador in Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
Haiti is no stranger to Kenneth H. Merten, the new U.S ambassador to Haiti. Merten worked in the small Caribbean country twice before taking over the diplomatic mission.
For his first tour in Haiti Merten worked as  the economic section chief. After working as an economic officer for the U.S. embassy in Bonn, Germany, [...]

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UNAIDS concerned economic crisis could hinder HIV treatment, prevention

By Jennifer Browning
While recent reports from the Associated Press explain how Haiti is finding ways to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS, there is still concern that the current economic crisis could hinder the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Media Global’s Amy Lieberman reported that nations in East and Southern Africa are beginning to feel the [...]

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