by Puerto Rico Rise Up | Nov 8, 2017 | News
After Hurricane Harvey flooded her city of Houston in August, Jennifer McQuade planned to donate socks. Instead, surprised by the lack of medical care at a nearby shelter, McQuade, an oncologist, became the unofficial leader of a group of physicians and mothers...
by Puerto Rico Rise Up | Oct 27, 2017 | News
Hurrican Marie blew up the roof at La Milagrosa home in Arecibo, which cares for girls victims of negligence and mistreatment, for which her 14 female residents had to be housed in one of the institution’s halls. “The home was greatly affected. There are...
by Puerto Rico Rise Up | Oct 20, 2017 | News
JUNCOS. In the midst of the crisis that Puerto Rico is experiencing after the impact of Hurricane Maria, other stories of need are being woven simultaneously, such as the one facing “La Casa de Todos”, a home that welcomes battered children and surviving...
by Puerto Rico Rise Up | Oct 9, 2017 | News
CAONILLAS, Utuado, P.R. — Dr. Lissette Gutierrez is normally not one to curse. But when the S.U.V. she was traveling in hit a rut and bounced wildly on a mud road carved into a mountainside — a steep decline inches to her right, the pounding rain all around — an...
by Puerto Rico Rise Up | Oct 5, 2017 | News
Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Dr. Janice Santos, assistant professor of surgery and a physician with Brown Urology, has been working to help provide relief where an urgent medical crisis continues. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In the wake of...
by Puerto Rico Rise Up | Oct 3, 2017 | News
RICHMOND, Ind. – It’s been nearly two weeks Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, directly or indirectly killing 18 people and leaving millions stranded without power. President Donald Trump visited today for the first time to check in on the relief efforts, which...