Community Health

What is the Community Health Initiative?

The Community Health Initiative is a venture started by two medical school classmates and emergency medicine doctors, Chris Buresh and Josh White, who had traveled to Haiti to provide short-term medical care to those in the city and in villages nearby.

They decided that they could best make a long-term impact by establishing continuity of medical care in a limited number of local villages. In June, 2009, Josh and Chris approached World Wide Village with their vision and plan, and a partnership was developed. The Community Health Initiative complements the ongoing multidisciplinary efforts of World Wide Village to improve life for the Haitian people through clean water, affordable and nutritious food, safe shelter, and economic growth through microenterprise.

What can you do?

We are quickly and efficiently placing donations of money and medical supplies into efforts to help Haitians recover from the recent devastating earthquake. We hope that you will be inspired to help through one of the following options…

The Community Health Initiative in the Media

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