Today we are kicking off our small donation campaign: One Hundred Friends For Haiti.  Our goal is get 100 $10 dollar one-time donations from our supporters by July 15th. We promise that your $10 donation will only be spent treating the top three diseases seen at Visitation Hospital and the surrounding communities: anemia, worms, and malaria. Visitation Hospital has identified these three conditions as the most prevalent and burdensome and here is how we plan to use your donation to address these issues.

First, we will provide every patient that shows signs of anemia with iron supplements a three month course of multivitamins.  Second, parasitic worm present a significant challenge to adequate nutrition and long term health and we are prepared treat each patient we see with a three day anti-worm medication that will last for six months.  Finally, we will use your donation to treat all acute malaria infections will a full regiment of chloroquine.  We have been assured that the malaria endemic to this area is sensitive to chloroquine and we feel that this will be the most efficacious and cost effective treatment we can provide.  

We can do all this but it will cost $1000 dollars to achieve.  If you believe in our endeavor please join us by donating $10 to our campaign.  With your help we will be able reach our goal and make a meaningful impact.  Thanks for your continued support and interest in this student led endeavor.