Go, and Do the Same: Schooling a New Generation for Haiti

Rodrigue Mortel

ISBN 10: 1885938543 / ISBN 13: 9781885938541

Published by Cathedral Foundation Press (edition 1), 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Go, and Do the Same: Schooling a New Generation for Haiti
• Publisher: Cathedral Foundation Press (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885938543
• ISBN 13: 9781885938541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In Haiti, where 40 percent of the population is still illiterate, a good school is a beacon of hope. Unfortunately, those beacons are rare. Yet education remains the most effective way to climb from poverty and despair to opportunity and success. Rodrigue Mortel, M.D., has traveled that road. He helped his unschooled mother with rice and vegetables she bought from the harvest to retail them in other markets. Foremost among his mother s sacrifices was ensuring that her son received a good education. Rodrigue attended primary, secondary and medical school in Haiti. He then entered the United States and became a world-renowned gynecologic oncologist. Dr. Mortel created the Mortel High Hopes for Haiti Foundation to empower through education the poorest of the poor Haitian children. Go and Do the Same: Schooling a New Generation for Haiti (Cathedral Foundation Press, 2018, 104 pp) chronicles Dr. Mortel s attempts to bring opportunity and success to children in Haiti. It is the uplifting story and inspirational accounts of the students who have benefited from these programs. Read and be inspired.

About the Author

After graduating from medical school in Haiti, Dr. Mortel received training in obstetrics and gynecology at Hahnemann Medical College and in gynecologic oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He then joined the Penn State College of Medicine, became full professor and eventually chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Before his retirement, he served as associate dean and founding director of the Penn State University Cancer Center. Aside from his medical career, Dr. Mortel is an ordained deacon in the Roman Catholic Church and has established two charitable organizations to serve the poorest of the poor of his native country of Haiti: the Mortel Family Charitable Foundation and the Mortel High Hopes for Haiti Foundation