Thanks to the nearly 200 supporters who came to the 4th Annual Maine Walks with Haiti and 4-Mile Run on May 11. We had a rainy start in the registration tent but Voodoo Jazz musician Gifrants had a word with the powers that be and the sky cleared in time for the 9:30 runner’s gun. Participants returning from their 4-mile...
Join Konbit Sante and WGME’s Kim Block in the 4th Annual Maine Walks with Haiti and 4-Mile Run on May 11. Run or walk – you can make a difference! Proceeds from the event go to support our programs in Cap-Haitien, Portland’s Sister City in Haiti. Gather at Back Cove Park on Preble St....
Join the effort to assemble safe birthing kits!
Konbit Sante staff members are distributing 300 birthing kits per month to pregnant women as part of mobile clinics in Cap-Haitien conducted in partnership with Haiti Hospital Appeal and the Haitian Ministry of Health. And we need...
US staff and volunteers arrived this week in Cap-Haitien to work on a number of projects during the month of January. One of the projects is to evaluate the program begun last year to help women experiencing complications in childbirth to obtain emergency transport to the nearest...
About our name: In Haitian Creole, a konbit is a traditional Haitian method of working together to till your friends' fields as well as your own. Sante means health. So the name means "working together for health."