Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Great news story about our friends at Haitian Connection Network!!

Boy!  You gotta just love the good news!!


Congratulations to Kristen Hertzog and her organization, Haitian Connection Network (HCN), on their hard work and the success related to this story (also featured on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer!):  http://www.philly.com/philly/health/From_Haiti_to_America_for_medical_care.html?viewGallery=y

Kristen Hertzog, a former model/actress who lives in Lancaster County, founded Haitian Connection Network, a non-profit based in Haiti that helps Haitians earn online degrees in computer science. She brought one of the students, Daniel Smith, 30, to Philadelphia for surgery to reconstruct his lower jaw at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, which underwrote the costs of his care. He had a benign but disabling and disfiguring jaw tumor called ameloblastoma. The surgery involved removing most of his lower jaw and rebuilding it using the long bone at the back of the leg below the knee. The leg can work fine without this bone, called the fibula.



You can learn more about the important work that HCN is doing in Haiti here


Haitian Connection Network
"Partnering to build an educated, self-reliant Haiti...one student at a time."

The Connection Network Inc; a 501 c3 non profit organization
Website: http://www.haitianconnectionnetwork.org
Email: kristen@haitianconnectionnetwork.org
Video: http://youtu.be/dj8VGdFjWsU
September Newsletter: http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d82d75e74aa44c4248e6533b0&id=6d4d71550b&e=499e77fd15
Facebook: Haitian Connection Network
Office Phone: 717-859-8038
Cell phone: 717-201-4893
 



Ben
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President, Thriving Villages International

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