Support the Work of Partners in Health with Haiti: January 12, 2010

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

All proceeds from the sale of this work go directly to provide support for Partners in Health (PIH). Partners in Health and its partner organization Zanmi Lasante have worked in Haiti for nearly twenty-five years, and today they are one of the largest non-governmental health providers in the country. (http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti)

Understanding the Haitian earthquake as a long-term crisis, the Institute is specifically supporting the initiatives of Doctor Giuseppe Raviola, Head of Psychiatric Health at Partners in Health, to attend to the crisis' "hidden wounds."

The Institute would like to thank Ron Haviv of the VII Photo Agency (www.viiphoto.com), Giorgio Baravalle, the founder of de.MO (http://www.de-mo.org/), and the distinguished author Simon Winchester (http://simonwinchester.com/about/bio/), for collaborating with the IGL on this effort.

Deep appreciation is due our generous underwriters: Robert and JoAnn Bendetson, Rick and Patti Wayne, Ira Herman and Patti D’Amore, Patricia and Emanuel Gantz, and Charles and Lynn Young.

Books are available for $54 from PIH. To order please contact the Institute via Andrew Marx, PiH's Director of Communications at: amarx@pih.org

The Institute and Haiti

The Institute is supporting the efforts of Ushahidi Haiti, hosting its monitoring and evaluation team at the Institute and supporting research on its efficacy, An Institute student is Ushahidi's representative in Port Au Prince.

The Institute also will be working with Mercy Corps' Haitian efforts, directed by Kyle Dietrich, an Institute Fletcher School student.

The Institute is also renewing our support of Robert Duval and his
L'Athletique d'Haiti (Athletes of Haiti) whose efforts through soccer on the behalf of Haiti's youth have been severely compromised by the earthquake. http://www.lathletiquedhaiti.com/?page_id=9

The Institute's RESPE program, which was initiated in 2008, will continue its efforts to support the rural community of Balan, which escaped the earthquake's direct impact but must contend with sustained poverty and the impending pressure of providing for internally displaced refugees.

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This is another team effort initiated by the Institute to respond to such a crisis. The first was also a collaboration with VII's photographers, de.Mo and Simon Winchester, "Tsunami: a Document of Devastation." http://www.flipkart.com/book/tsunami-joachim-ladefoged-jim-natchwehy/097...