Public Health

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The Pwoje Espwa Clinic

Will Perez- Public Health Director May 2008-Feb 2009

Public Health Education and Training Program for Rural Haitian Youth

•The mission of my work is to improve the health of rural Haitians and the death toll imposed on them by the constraints of poverty.

•My goals are to mobilize communities in Haiti by empowering Haitians to take control over their own health.

•Through education, I am equipping them with the tools they need to save their own lives.

•These efforts are most important in rural Haiti where there are no doctors and where the people themselves are there own medical community.

•The goals are to educate Haitian youth to become leaders in their own communities as trained community health workers.*

*My immediate goal for the public health program is to identify the parts that are adaptable to other regions in Haiti. The program I have already developed and the team that I have trained is specific to the southwestern region. While many aspects of the program may not need to be changed, Haiti is a diverse nation both in geography and population. For these reasons, a national approach to public health training would require a program that is easily modifiable and readily adaptable to any region of Haiti.

Please click on the icons below to learn about some of the public health programs that Will started while working with the Pwoje Espwa clinic. Several of these programs have since been shared with Hope for Haiti and other organizations throughout Haiti, now reaching thousands of rural Haitians on a daily basis