Life-changing opportunity: VHP meets Dr. Paul Farmer
VHP traveled to a conference at Harvard Medical School last Tuesday where they were finally able to meet in person and speak in depth with their long-time mentor and role…
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VHP, ProHealth expand knowledge bases at conference
The Shubert Theater at Yale University was filled with the biggest names in health and innovation last weekend. This year, Yale was the site of the twelfth-annual Global Health and…
The art of healing: VHP helps fund change
The pieces currently on display in the Palmer Gallery will be for sale and auctioned off. All of the proceeds from the sale will go towards funding the Vassar Haiti…
Film screening to present realities of Haitian womanhood
A Haitian proverb goes: Fanm se poto mitan, which means “women are the central pillars of society”. On Friday, Jan. 31, the Vassar Haiti Project (VHP), along with the Feminist…
Lessons for life from a single day in Haiti
I shone a flashlight into Peter’s mosquito tent to wake him up. It was nearly 6 a.m.; we needed to place an early phone call to finalize the details of…