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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Twelve faith-based and human rights organizations responded immediately today to the plan unveiled yesterday by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to elimiate cholera in Haiti.

Global travelers will catch a glimpse of Haiti’s and Massachusetts’ rich culture next year when passing through Terminal A of Boston’s Logan Airport. Under the inspiration and direction of Mike Cataldo, Director of Marketing for Massport, the Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts will exhibit in Terminal A’s passageways original paintings by Haitian American artists and Haitian artists.

Dinner and Book Discussion: Mighty Be Our Powers January 14, 2013, 6:30 – 9:00 PM Hunt Alternatives Fund; 625 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA Join NEID for a dinner and discussion on Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, by 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee.

On December 3 I shared at a No Kid Hungry event for Share Our Strength our personal story of spending nine months on Food Stamps when Jim and I first met over three decades ago. We never forgot what that was like or the desperate families we shopped with.

Please help us reach 10,000 signatures on a petition calling for the UN to implement a comprehensive solution — rather than a bandaid approach — to the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Tomorrow the United Nations will unveil a plan to contain the disease.

Because grave food insecurity looms due to crop destruction by Hurricane Sandy, the Haiti Fund at the Boston Foundation is making emergency grants to prior agricultural grantees in the southern Haiti, which was slammed by the storm. Grants to foster rural livelihoods and the decentralization of Haiti form the largest portion of the Haiti.

Thanks to the Haiti Fund at the Boston Foundation and Ansara Family Fund grantee Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, we have a stellar panel in Boston this week discussing: “Why have NGOs made such lim­ited con­tri­bu­tions in Haiti?”

Partners in Health celebrates 25 years with a gala in Boston Click on link above for Becca Rollin’s video of the Nov. 15th event. At a spectacular gala event in Boston on November 15, global health organization Partners in Health celebrated 25 years serving the world’s poor.

As reported by the Beverly Hills Courier, Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder of Partners in Health, has tapped Dr. Henri Ford, Chief of Surgery at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, Vice Dean of Medical Education at University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, and member of the Board of Regents of of the American College of Surgeons, to help open the new state-of-the-art teaching hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti.

Tonight we celebrate Partners in Health’s 25 years of putting the poor first. Why do you believe in Partners in Health? Co-Founder Paul Farmer shares below.

In Haiti death is a daily lesson. Builder and exquisite writer Paul Fallon, who has lived in Haiti and guided the construction of the new “Be Like Brit” orphanage for over two years, chronicles the senseless deaths in his adopted community.

October 27, 2012. Dear brothers and sisters, I am writing you to let you know of the situation in Haiti following Hurricane Sandy. I just returned from a trip to Port-au-Prince. The situation is devastating. The storm stayed for almost five days. The rain fell without ceasing. The wind was very strong.

Why do I count the days between Opportunity Collaborations, the October un-conference in Ixtapa, Mexico for those committed to alleviating poverty? Because every year I know I will fall in love there all over again. I fall in love partly due to the tangerine sunsets and the lime margaritas.

Well over 1,000 volunteers from Greater Boston have lent a hand to build and equip the new National Teaching Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, as reported by G. Jeffrey MacDonald in yesterday’s Boston Globe North. From shipping construction materials and medical supplies, to shaping and installing millwork and ventilation systems,

As of 11 p.m. on August 26, the day Hurricane Isaac struck the island of Hispaniola, Haiti’s Civil Protection Department of the Ministry of the Interior reported the following tragedies: 19 deaths, 6 disappearances, and 22 injured . 15,812 evacuated, 14,672 in 92 shelters, and 3,632 families without shelter,

I would not be who I am had it not been for my mentors — and as a woman in my 50’s, I need mentors today just as much as I did in my 20’s. Now I can chose a virtual mentor from a FREE series of on-line interviews at iOnPoverty.tv.