"The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti, is located 700 miles from the United States.  This is the country and people that the members of Forward in Health have embraced. This is the poverty Forward in Health has decided to stare down and do something about. " Dr. John Mulqueen

Haiti is America 's poor neighbor whose yard is difficult to look at; the impoverished cousin whose relatives find it easier to ignore than to invite to family events. The poverty in Haiti is so extreme that it will make a grown man cry.  It is a poverty that is difficult to look at and easier to ignore.  It is a poverty that is not merely not having enough, it is not having any. It is a poverty that kills.

This is the country and people that the members of Forward in Health have embraced.