Free health materials in Haitian Creole – DO please share!

Our apologies if this is a cross-post - we hope you agree that this information is very important. Thank you for your understanding.

In the face of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Hesperian urges everyone to forward and distribute the following health materials in Haitian Creole and English to every relief worker, resident, and traveler already in or leaving for Haiti.

*HEALTH MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN HAITIAN CREOLE:*

Here is a link to the pdf of the Haitian Creole edition of Where There is No Doctor, also available as a printed book through our partners: 4 The World Resource Distributers
Tel: 417-862-4448
Fax: 417-863-9994
orders@4wrd.org

Pdf of the Haitian Creole edition of Where Women Have No Doctor.

Pdf of the Haitian Creole edition of Sanitation and Cleanliness booklet, produced by our partners at SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods)

Here’s a link to our CHOLERA PREVENTION FACTSHEET, in English

Special thanks to Ingrid Hawkinson from Hesperian who I had the pleasure of meeting at Yale last year, who send this fantastic set of resources.

The American Psychological Association has posted information for the public – particularly to help those distressed because they have family and loved ones in Haiti at www.apa.org. 

DON’Ts

Now, having sent these resources out, please, please, please do not try to go to Haiti unless you have been invited to volunteer and that you have appropriate training in community psychology and/or public health interventions/medicine, language skills and cultural competence.

It is also important to note that all relief agencies are currently recommending against volunteer travel to Haiti. 

Agencies are communicating the best help that can currently be provided is financial support to relief agencies not volunteers on the ground.

I have been through the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health training and please know that the Red Cross is not recruiting any volunteers to travel to Haiti at this time. The response operation is being handled by the Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the American Red Cross’s International Division. 

We send our deepest sympathies to those who have been directly and indirectly affected by this disaster. Natural disasters are made worse by our very human-made systems that impoverish people and deny their right to health. As we encourage you to donate to the relief effort, both the Center for Global Initiatives and Hesperian recommend the following organizations which have redoubled their work in Haiti to address this most recent catastrophe:

Haiti Action Network's Haiti Emergency Relief Fund

Partners in Health

Grassroots International, Earthquake Relief Fund for Haiti