At the 2005 Annual General Meeting, former Haiti Country Director Marty Mueller made an inspiring presentation about the work of Peace Corps in Haiti. RPCVSF then enlisted RPCVs who had served in Haiti to identify how our community could best offer effective assistance.
Over the next four years, RPCVSF raised over $15000 to pay for pre-op tests that hydro-cephalic children in Haiti needed in order to qualify for free corrective surgery offered by South Florida surgeons volunteering their services to Project Medishare.
Once Medishare secured a permanent source of funding for those tests, RPCVSF switched its support to the Haitian Education Leadership Program (HELP) which provides scholarship and mentoring so that the top high school graduates from remote and marginalized areas of Haiti have the opportunity to complete college studies.
RPCSF has collaborated on HELP fundraisers in South Florida generating over $20,000. Both Medishare and HELP have close ties to the RPCV community.
