Hi, I'm Julian, and will going down to Cap from late May through the end of the year, supplementing and then replacing Hannah Steadman's role as team leader of the Network Support Team! I'm super excited to go down! I'm originally from Montana and am in my final year of Yale's joint Bachelors of Arts/Masters of Public Health Program. I'll be going to work in the health care and public/social sector practices of McKinsey & Company when I return from Haiti.
It's been exciting to connect with some of the Network Organizations in the northeast US since joining the team a few weeks ago. I attended a meeting with Hands up for Haiti last weekend. Many topics were discussed, including logistics related to getting volunteers down to Haiti, fund raising, and procurement of medications. It was exciting to hear about the degree of community involvement--there are so many people in the NY metro region and beyond interested in getting involved!
Yesterday I went to the Vassar Haiti Project, a great effort celebrating its tenth year anniversary. They get lots of great artwork from Haitian artists and sell it at the Auction to support their projects in the village of Chermaitre, Haiti (near Gros-Morne in the northwest), supporting the artists' livelihoods in turn. The project started as an effort to build a school, which now operates as a fully functional 7 room school (before it had only 1 room)! They work with church leaders and community members to do an impressive array of projects in the village and surrounding area, including reforestation (done by local workers) and a new project to build a medical clinic and find staff to operate it. I was really impressed by the depth of the college students' involvement--it's hard to find that on a college campus since there is always so much going on!
Please contact me if we can do anything for you, and again, I'm excited to get to know people involved in Haiti!
Julian Malinak
julian.malinak@gmail.com
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