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Series summary UPDATE: June 11, 2004: During an operation in Boston surgeons at New England Medical Center cut out a Haitian man's lower jaw, two-thirds of which had been devoured by the tumor. Read more ... June 1, 2004: Deadly storms that pounded Haiti last week slowed the flow of food to a hospital run by a South Shore organization and destroyed homes in an area adopted by the group. Read more ... Feb. 24, 2004: An armed uprising in Haiti is preventing medicine and other supplies from reaching a hospital run by a South Shore organization, and volunteers fear the situation will grow bleaker in coming days if rebels take more of the country. Read more ... Stories from
main series Day 1: Sept. 13, 2003 - View Slideshow | View PDFs of printed pages A 20-bed hospital and other medical services paid for and run by a South
Shore church group help the desperately poor of Fond des Blancs find relief
from the poverty that punishes them. A 13-month-old life is cut short when a mother’s attempts to seek medical care prove too little, too late. Read more ... A timeline of help to Haiti. View timeline ... A Braintree man chips away at Haitian poverty, a nickel at a time. Read more ... A doctor shares the sadness of growing up in Haiti, a place where the simple act of dreaming is elusive. Read more ... Reporter's Notebook: See the sights and hear the sounds of Haiti. Read more ...
Day 2: Sept. 15, 2003 - View slideshow | View PDFs of printed pages The St. Boniface Haiti Foundation is pulling some of Fond des Blancs’
neediest families out of poverty by building simple houses that protect
against the elements. Read more ...
Day 3: Sept. 16, 2003 - View Slideshow | View PDFs of printed pages Money raised from families on the South Shore and beyond help ease the
everyday struggle for food and water in Fond des Blancs. Read
more ...
Day 4: Sept. 17, 2003 - View Slideshow | View PDFs of printed pages The foundation begun by a small Quincy church group has
touched tens of thousands of lives. And it keeps growing. Read
more ... A Quincy woman looks through Haiti’s sadness and finds
dignity. Read more ... This web site uses elements designed
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