A dear friend in Portland helped found a medical sister city project, Konbit Sante, between Portand, Maine and Cap-Haitien, Haiti in 2000, where they have helped build and expand medical care to this area of a quarter million Haitians on the northern coast. It's been an incredibly difficult but successful venture and has been vital to both Haitian and Maine citizens as well as a sign of hope for the world. The recent, possibly illegal shut down of USAID has caused one of Konbit Sante's programs - the only one funded by US government funds - to close. It was a program that offered maternal, infant and child health care. According to Konbit Sante,
As a direct result of this mandated stoppage:
Thousands of children will no longer receive essential vaccinations and vitamins.
Community health workers will no longer run family planning clinics, educate women about their pregnancies, or monitor the conditions of expectant mothers and infants.
Thirty workers in all, including community health workers, nurses, lab technicians, and support staff, are no longer working at Fort Saint Michel.
Only one of the thousands of programs that do good around the world and help our county overcome so much hard history of exploitation. Who are we as a nation and why are we letting Musk destroy so much?
Dear Senator, who do you want us to be? It's in your power to resist, disrupt and speak out against the many cruel and inhuman and likely illegal actions of this administration. If not you, who? If not now, when?
