Haiti Outreach Program is able to fly solar panels, vaccine refrigerator to Caribbean country in political turmoil By Hiske Jones A long-awaited flight landed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on June 13, with unusual cargo: solar panels and a refrigerator to store life-saving vaccines. According to Billy Stair, a longtime volunteer with the Haiti Outreach Program affiliated with the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, the idea to send the panels and refrigerator began more than a decade ago. “In our initial medical mission to Bouly in 2008, we felt we had to do something to bring health care to an area that had never seen any doctors or nurses before,” Mr. Stair said. Bouly is a remote village, accessible only by foot through rough mountainous terrain, usually a six-hour hike from Boucan-Carré, the small town that is home to St. Michel, Sacred Heart Cathedral’s sister parish. On the 2008... Read more →