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![]() Photo Essay: Squirrel Hill family spends a year in a place very different from home
Tuesday, September 24, 2002 Photographs by Martha Rial
What better way for Karen Williams to instill in her children a better understanding of themselves and the world than to live in Haiti for a year while her husband, Dr. Steven Williams, offered his skills to the Hopital Albert Schweitzer?
The hospital, founded by Dr. Larry and Gwen Mellon in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is the focal point of the Aribonite Valley, a region much different from their Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
The younger Williams children couldn't remember anything about the time the family lived in Haiti from 1991 to 1993 during their father's first stint there. So, last year, the Williamses rented out their home and headed back to the land that never left their hearts.
Living on the hospital compound in a diverse, ex-patriot community, the Williams children lived a lifestyle in which electricity, hot water, phones and e-mail are not taken for granted. And they saw how important a 190-bed hospital, small by Pittsburgh standards, could be to an area.
Karen Williams said she and her husband first learned of Hopital Albert Schweitzer from Ian and Lucy Rawson of Squirrel Hill. Ian Rawson is the son of Gwen Mellon. The Rawsons help raise money to continue the hospital's work by selling Haitian art here and across the country.
On Friday, Lucy Rawson, founder and president of The Friends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer and the Bitz Foundation will be hosting The H'art and Soul of Haiti, an evening of art, dining and music by the Tom Tom Club in the upper level of the Bitz Building, above Dowe's, Downtown. For details, call 412-361-4884.
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