Tooting horns and helping Haitians

OK, this is Kate - trying this whole blogging thing for the first time, but I thought today was newsworthy enough to do it.

I was quoted in the New York Time! Ok, not the print edition, and in a technology blog, but it was still really cool. Here's the link: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/gates-foundation-seeks-to-spur-savings-by-the-poor/?ref=technology. There was also a Seattle Times article which was much longer: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thebusinessofgiving/2010777229_gates_foundation_makes_major_g.html

Is tooting your own horn what this blog is about? Sorry.

I know also that our hearts are going out to Haitians today. I had the honor and privilege to visit there last year and it is a place that has just been ravaged by man made and natural disasters. We work with a great organization called Fonkoze whose staff and clients are really hurting - but simultaneously doing all they can to help others. www.fonkoze.org. Also, you're probably familiar wtih Paul Farmer and Partners in Health - the grand daddy of modern public health practices that started in the Central Plateau, and always doing incredibly worth work in the country. That's where our money went today.

Love to all,
Kate