U.S. charity opens children’s hospital in Haiti
St. Damien Hospital was built by Friends of the Orphans, an Arlington Heights, Ill.-based nonprofit group that supports nine orphanages throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
John C. Smith, interim chief executive of Friends of the Orphans, called the hospital in Port-au-Prince’s Tabarre neighborhood “one more step toward helping the people of Haiti end the cycle of poverty in which they find themselves.”
Friends of the Orphans didn’t disclose the cost of the hospital, which will benefit residents of Port-au-Prince and nearby communities.
The group says it supports 3,000 orphans in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and most of its 8 million people live on less than $2 per day.
A service of the Associated Press(AP)
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2006/12/05/ap-state-il/d8lqeha01.prt
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