The Point

Website: https://www.lapointefoundation.org

Charlotte Whitmore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charwhitmore/

Caleb Whitmore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebwhitmore/

Our first episode is an interview with the founders of La Pointe Foundation.

At La Pointe Foundation, we believe sustainable solutions are built in community. COMMUNITY IS COMMON UNITY—a group of people who have a common purpose, a common need, and a common desire to come together, in a united front, to solve whatever challenge lies in front of them. Our purpose is to close the gap between people and sustainable solutions. Put simply? We want to enable the overlooked and forgotten with support, encouragement, and resources that will help them become truly independent and sustainable in the key pillars of health care, education, safe living conditions, and entrepreneurship.

Listen to hear the genesis of the organization, and get involved: https://www.lapointefoundation.org

Website: www.capracare.org

Contact & Social: @capraJPL @capracare | FB, IG, Twitter, Linkedin

Jean Pierre-Louis, MPH, is an accomplished global health and strategic leader with a passion to improve the quality of healthcare for communities at risk in countries such as Haiti, Ghana, and other developing countries. He is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of capracare, a Haitian-led, non-governmental community health organization located in the southern province of Fonfrede, Haiti. Mr. Pierre-Louis, who is Haitian born, founded capracare in 2009 as a response to the gross inadequacies of medical and preventive health services that were lacking in the greater Les Cayes, Haiti.

Under Mr. Pierre-Louis’ leadership, capracare continues to thrive as the leading organization dedicated to developing sustainable community health programs, professional development and training, and social services to a population of 20,000 men, women, and children living with Fonfrede. capracare's mission is to promote health change by reducing health disparities through individual acts of courage. As a result, the organization has spearheaded and mobilized an ever-growing number of community health workers, volunteers, public health educators, and medical professionals to provide health services as well as transform communities throughout the greater Les Cayes, Haiti.Mr. Pierre Louis obtained his B.A in Public Health and his Masters in Health Care Administration and Policy at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York.

As a seasoned global public health administrator, he knows how to engage communities in various sectors both nationally and globally to create sustainable systemic strategies that improve the quality and access of health such as capracare’s flagship program to end cervical cancer in Haiti. As a thought leader, Mr. Pierre-Louis has the expertise that it requires to lead a successful non profit organization. He has established strong strategic partnerships and relationships to help support the work of capracare in Haiti. His positive growth mindset is to drive and replicate capracare throughout Haiti. He is an award-winning non-profit leader who is an inductee of the Haitian Roundtable 1804 List. He enjoys mentoring students & non-profit executives, leadership coaching, and supporting liked minded individuals in the global health community.

Website: https://www.cmbhaiti.org

CMB was founded in the 1940’s and now serves a population of 700,000+. Facilities like CMB are vital when only 8% of the the rural population has access to quality healthcare facilities. With a life expectancy of 63 years old, and less than half of Haitian children getting basic immunizations, places like CMB are literally lifesaving.

CMB treats an average of 200 patients per day and offers care in the following areas: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics-Gynecology, and Pediatrics. There are also numerous public health and prevention programs for community advancement.

Today we are speaking to a world changing leader in the fight for equal access to healthcare, here name is Baradina.