Moab Sun News: Sharon Sullivan
Helping out in Haiti
Sixteen residents of Huntsville and Eden went to Haiti in October to provide humanitarian service to the community of Timo, as part of the Haiti Health Initiative (HHI), a nonprofit organization based out of Orem.
Their project was to finish a building in Timo to be used as a community center for doctors and dentists. The building will also be used for educational, cultural, and clinical purposes.
Standard Examiner: Jennilyn Williams
Ogden Valley residents provide humanitarian service in Haiti
Sixteen residents of Huntsville and Eden went to Haiti in October to provide humanitarian service to the community of Timo, as part of the Haiti Health Initiative (HHI), a nonprofit organization based out of Orem.
Their project was to finish a building in Timo to be used as a community center for doctors and dentists. The building will also be used for educational, cultural, and clinical purposes.
Liberty Mountain: Christian Weaver
A Week in Haiti
MOST WEEKS AT MY SOCIAL PRACTICE I have the privilege to talk on the phone with people at dental practices who are interested in marketing with social media. I speak with dentists, their spouses, their assistants, hygienists, practice managers, front desk teams, and marketing coordinators.
A couple of weeks ago I didn’t take or place a single phone call like that. This was because I was working with a dental team on a Humanitarian trip to a village called Timo in Haiti.
My Social Practice: By Adrian Lefler
Dylan Talks About His Dental Humanitarian Trip To Haiti
MOST WEEKS AT MY SOCIAL PRACTICE I have the privilege to talk on the phone with people at dental practices who are interested in marketing with social media. I speak with dentists, their spouses, their assistants, hygienists, practice managers, front desk teams, and marketing coordinators.
A couple of weeks ago I didn’t take or place a single phone call like that. This was because I was working with a dental team on a Humanitarian trip to a village called Timo in Haiti.
Standard Examiner: By Rachel J. Trotter
Helping Haiti – high school style
OGDEN — The faces of Emily Porter and Sabrina Wood light up when the girls talk about giving service — Emily says she loves playing the violin for local senior citizens, and Sabrina has gone as far as Mexico to help install stoves.
But next week, service will take on a whole new meaning for the two Ogden High School students, as they spend more than two weeks on a service trip to Haiti.
The two girls will be accompanying their dads, Joel Porter and Tom Wood, and about 30 others as they volunteer with the Haiti Health Initiative group.
KSL.com: By Stephanie Grimes
From Haiti, with love: storm sends Utah volunteers packing
SALT LAKE CITY — On Wednesday night, the road more closely resembled a river, but the people of the Haitian village Timo are used to unlivable conditions.
The village, nestled at the end of a road at the bottom of a hill with cliffs on either side, is a study in the solidarity of the human spirit. The people who live there have made lives for themselves where no one in the developed world would look twice, and where even its own residents describe as "uninhabitable."
For close to a week before the flooding, the residents of Timo, as well as those of surrounding areas, had lined up at daybreak for the chance to have dental work done by American dentists. In many cases, hundreds of dollars' worth of work was done — an impossible expense in a country where the annual household income is less than one-third of what the average American makes in a month.
Some waited in line from morning to night for days at a time until it was finally their turn to see one of the two dentists there with the Haiti Health Initiative, a Utah organization aimed at bettering the lives of Haitians one community at a time.
All told, 321 patients were seen by the group between their arrival on Saturday and the storm's arrival on Wednesday. More than 200 teeth were pulled, on top of more than 200 fillings and at least three times as many sealants. The group was planning to continue their work on Thursday, but the storm had other plans.
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