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.

If I had 28 precious minutes, I would watch this riveting video. I would sign this compelling petition. I would send this video, “Baseball in the Time of Cholera,” everywhere I could. http://undeny.org Now is the moment to make this go viral. Wake up the world! See for yourself the evidence.

Speaking on a panel at the World Bank along with Partners in Health co-founder Dr. Jim Kim, now President of the Bank, Dr.Paul Farmer stressed that pills and prevention are not enough to end disease because it is inseparable from poverty and that investing in one sector divorced from others will not end that poverty.

The gnawing poverty of America’s families in the worst economy since the Great Depression seems to be invisible to many members of Congress. The Agriculture Committee of the House of Representatives just approved a farm bill with $16.5 million in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program known as SNAP or food stamps.

The Haiti Advocacy Working Group, Haitian Grassroots partners, Diaspora leaders and additional U.S. Citizens are coming together to bring their voices to Capitol Hill on April 26, 2012. They will advocate for a just reconstruction process in Haiti, one that prioritizes consultation with Haitian grassroots groups and Diaspora groups.

In late March Haiti’s President Michel Martelly toured the new National Teaching Hospital in Mirebalais being built under the auspices of Partners in Health in partnership with the Haiti’s Ministry of Health. The facility will be owned by the Haitian Government. Jim Ansara, Director of Construction for PIH noted that “President Martelly was blown away.

Join David Campbell (founder of All Hands Volunteers), Appy Chandler and representatives from the Japanese Disaster Relief Fund Boston for a lively discussion about their international philanthropy efforts. The conversation will be facilitated and hosted by Kate Guedj, Vice President of Donor Services at the Boston Foundation and member of NEID’s Steering Committee.

“Most banks give only .025% to charity. Can you believe that?” asked Rick Wayne, President and CEO of Northeast Bank in Greater Boston, when I met him last week. “Our new all on-line savings platform, ableBanking, will give $25 to the charity of your choice as soon as you open an account.

For days Haitian and volunteer construction workers made the construction site of Haiti’s new National Teaching Hospital ship-shape for today’s visit by dignitaries, former President Bill Clinton and Partners in Health (PIH) co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. Guided by Dr. David Walton and my husband Jim, Director of Construction for PIH, Clinton and his entourage examined.