Thermitus is a trained pharmacist, and holds diplomas in this field. He is also an accomplished interpreter, speaking Haitian Creole, French, English and Spanish. Before being appointed In-Country Executive Director, Thermitus worked for HUFH as our Assistant In-Country Executive Director and before that, as a translator, pharmacist, volunteer coordinator and as our Haiti Village Health Site Administrator where he managed the guesthouse and clinic at our Global Health training site. He has organized the community to clean large areas of the beach, polluted from offshore, stressing the connection between the environment and heath. He is very dedicated to the people in his home village of Labadee, where he has set up community projects for youth. He is a talented artist and musician.

Dr. Josema graduated from Université Notre Dame d’Haïti with a specialty in Pediatrics She did her Résidence en Service social à l’Hôpital Saint François de Sales de Port-au-Prince. Dr. Josema takes care of patients in our Malnutrition and Well-Child programs.  She has taken the lead in reorganizing our approach to caring for babies and children and is our current liaison with the Ministry of Health. She has been a wonderful addition to our medical staff and absolutely loves working with babies and mothers.

After earning her diploma in nursing sciences at Roi Henri Christophe in Cap-Haïtien in 2014, Verline continued her training with courses in, among others, Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Babies Survive, prenatal ultrasound, vitamins, high risk pregnancies, sickle cell anemia and hypertension, emergency medicine, HIV/AIDS, cholera and pharmacology. Verline worked and trained in several hospitals including Fort St. Michel, Grande Rivière du Nord, Bon Samaritin du Limbé, Trou du Nord and the Health Center of La Fossette. Verline began volunteering with HUFH in 2015 as a nurse in charge of one of our malnutrition program sites. In 2019 she was appointed the head nurse at the Shada community clinic, a position in which she continued when the Shada programs were moved to the HUFH office. As our newly appointed Director of Nursing at Hands Up For Haiti, Verline coordinates all nursing and TSK activities related to the well-baby, prenatal and malnutrition program and supervises the TSKs and program nurses at each of the sites; she is also the nurse-in-charge of our prenatal program, offering direct care and education at three sites.

After graduating from l’UNACH, the Université Académique of the North of Haiti in 2014, Nurse Guerline Robillard completed her internship at Bethesda Hospital as a nurse clinician. While at Bethesda, she served as a peer educator. Guerline continued her nursing training in maternal/child health at the Health Center of La Fossette, in community health care at the Monbin Crochu Health Center and received a certificate from Vitamin Angels. She also earned a certificate in computerized accounting from INFONDA (the Vincent Foundation). Guerline joined HUFH in 2017, working in our Hypertension and Malnutrition Programs as a nurse and program manager. She was appointed the Assistant Nursing Director in early 2021, with supervisory and program delivery duties.