After years of mistaken association with MANNA FoodBank and Mission Health, Mission Manna has changed its name to Consider Haiti. However, the nonprofit’s desire to help the Haitian children remains the same. (photo courtesy of Consider Haiti)
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After years of mistaken association with MANNA FoodBank and Mission Health, Mission Manna has changed its name to Consider Haiti. However, the nonprofit’s desire to help the Haitian children remains the same. (photo courtesy of Consider Haiti)
Twice a year, a team from Asheville-based Mission Manna travels to Haiti to provide healthcare to children living in and around the town of Montrouis.
“Arrived Montrouis late last night after dark drive from Port au Prince. Good to be here!” was the word Saturday night from a group of Asheville doctors, nurses and volunteers from Mission Manna who fly regularly to Haiti to provide health services.
We see a lot of extremes in Haiti. Beautiful kids living in dire poverty, for example. Last night we saw a rainbow on one side of the mountain, and a breath-taking sunset on the other.
Coverage (via Twitter) of tonight’s (Sept. 7) panel presentation on Haiti as seen by medical volunteers from Asheville’s Mission Manna and other relief groups.
Haiti’s recovery from the devastating January earthquake is far from complete. And the Asheville connection with recovery efforts remains strong. Mountain Xpress publisher Jeff Fobes attended a UN Association panel discussion on Tuesday, June 22: Haiti: Past, present and future. Here are Fobes’ collected messages (Tweets) from the session.
Asheville-based Mission Manna has a team working in Haiti this week and is providing updates via Twitter, which are viewable in this post.
One week after they departed Asheville, MissionMANNA’s medical team touches down back in Miami, on their way home. Here’s a brief report, a video, and a poem.
Mission MANNA’s team is back from the mountains and about to undertake their last day of clinics.
The medical team has returned from its two-day trek, reports Todd Kaderabek, Mission MANNA’s point person in Asheville. “The Asheville team is off mountain and back in Montrouis,” says Todd. “Looks like it was rough. They happened upon a rollover injury.” Thursday evening, Oct. 22: Dr. Derek Dephouse reports, “Many malnourished kids. It was Haiti […]
Wednesday night, Oct. 21: The Asheville Mission MANNA medical team should be camped 2,500 feet above the Caribbean by now, nestled under the same stars as you, but a world away,
This is the second report from the group of Asheville doctors, nurses and volunteers from Mission MANNA, who flew to Haiti this past Saturday — as they do twice yearly, to provide ongoing medical assistance to more than 1,000 kids in need. Here’s how the team reported it, relayed via Twitter.
This past Saturday, a group of Asheville doctors, nurses and volunteers from Mission MANNA flew to Haiti, as they do twice yearly, to provide ongoing medical assistance to more than 1,000 kids in need. Here’s the first installment about their trip, told as it unfolded, via Twitter.