Harvard University Club of Ottawa (HUCO)
and Harvard Business School Club, Canada's Capital Region

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Solidarity with Haiti

Harvard University's Global-Month-of-Service Events for the Benefit of Haiti

Immediately following Haiti's 2010 earthquake, Harvard University Club of Ottawa (HUCO) took the initiative to help incorporate Partners In Health of Boston in Canada. Thanks to Neil Milton, the incorporation letter-patent was issued in June 2010. As a result, Partners In Health can now tap directly into Canadian talent and generosity to help those in dire need.

We also wish to thank our fellow HBS alumnus Neil Greene, CEO of Eastway Tank for building, in Ottawa, and delivering, in September 2010, a fuel truck, door-to-door, to Partners In Health in Haiti. The fuel is used to power the generators of PIH clinics in the remove plateaus of Haiti.

HUCO also organized the following event for the benefit of the people of Haiti.


Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Disease in Rich and Poor Countries
Partners In Health: A History of Innovation and Impact
 by Donella Rapier, Chief Financial Officer, Partners in Health
Dr. David M. Malone, President, International Development Research Centre
May 13, 2010, Ottawa
Dr. Paul Farmer and Partners In Health

 I Believe in Healthcare as a Human Right

Butaro Hospital - A Message from Paul Farmer

 No Words Can Describe What Happened that Day

 From Malawi to Haiti and Back - Partners In Health Dr. Jonas Rigodon

 Arcade Fire: Help Haiti Build Back Better After the Earthquake — Support Partners In Health

 Bridging the Way to Better Health (1.5 minutes)

The next video is a bit long but fascinating. It provides the incisive perspective of Dr. Jim Yong Kim, one of Dr. Paul Farmer’s long-term teammates. Skip Dartmouth’s welcoming remarks of Dr. Kim and start at 3’24” when Dr. Kim takes the microphone, up to minute 44; then, skip to the last couple of questions from 1:14’ to the end of the conversation.

 Jim Yong Kim lectures on Haiti, PIH and global health

On May 13th, 2010, Ottawa Made a Positive Contribution to Help Those in Dire Need.

Harvard University Global Month of Service was an opportunity for all of us to make a positive contribution and help those in dire need. In this context, we learned about the trailblazing experience of Partners in Health (PIH) in Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Disease both in Rich and Poor Countries. This event served a dual worthy cause: donate the proceeds to PIH front-line projects in Haiti and educate us about PIH innovative work in improving the health and nutrition of the poor in any community.

For 22 years, PIH charity organization has stood as a beacon of best health-care governance and practices, with immeasurable achievements on the ground. Building on its medical roots in Boston hospitals with Harvard-University medical-community support, PIH is dedicated to delivering quality health care to people and communities devastated by joint burdens of poverty and disease. PIH’s work has three goals: to care for patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease and to share lessons learned around the world. PIH care is now cutting-edge and, first and foremost, context and culture centric, with a large dedicated and diverse workforce—the vast majority of which are local people who previously had never had a job. This great NGO has proven that it is possible to break the cycle of poverty and disease in America and in the developing world.

President Bill Clinton recently said that Dr. Paul Farmer, the founder of PIH is “the Albert Schweitzer of the modern era.” The Secretary General of the United Nations appointed him as his Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti last year. And several books have been written about Dr. Farmer, most notably “Mountains Beyond Mountains”, a New York Times best seller by the renown author Tracy Kidder. Dr. Farmer is also the Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Our speakers: Ms. Donella Rapier and Dr. David M. Malone

Transparency Card

46 paying participants at $21 plus 10 guests
(volunteers, Canada Without Poverty, PIH, St-Paul and Marriott).

           $966.00  Total Income
          ($196.48)  Less Expenses (GST $46, card fees $42.85, amphitheatre $107.63)
=         $769.52  Net Revenue to PIH (from tuition fees)
+      $3,560.00  Individual Donations to PIH as of May 18, 2010
+    $12,438.30  Additional donation to PIH of US$ 12,076.02 @ 1.03, as of June 18, 2010
+    $35,000.00  Additional donation to PIH, in CAD$, as of June 23, 2010
=    $51.767.82  Contributions to PIH (from fees and donations)

                          The following costs were covered by donors:
           $397.41  Corporate donor - 3 meetings: 33 working meals (May 12 and 13)
+        $520.00  Courtyard by Marriott: Hotel accommodation for speaker
+        $260.00  Posters: Courtesy of St-Paul University to PIH Haiti
+          $75.00  Museum of Civilization working-breakfast conference room
=     $1,252.41  Total Cost Paid for by Donors

+  $51.767.82  Plus Individual Contributions to PIH (see above)

=  $53,020.23  Total $ Value as of June 23, 2010
                        (excludes volunteer time and promised corporate donations
                        following PIH incorporation in Canada)

Volunteer time for fund raising and organizing May 13th conference
 Jose Gerstl, Paul Leduc, Helene Martin, Thea Michalski, Huyen Tran, Alain Martin

 Those who made a donation in addition the registration fees of $21 will receive a receipt from Partners In Health.

We wish to thank the Marriott Hotel, the Museum of Civilization and our dedicated volunteers (names above) for their generosity and spirit of cooperation.

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