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Cherilus is Heading To His Haitian Homeland With a Team of Doctors

Gosder Cherilus and a team of doctors and nurses are headed to his Haitian homeland, to provide as much assistance as they can to the struggling country.

Cherilus Deserves Respect For Coming to the Aid of His Countrymen

Cherilus says:

“They have a hospital waiting on them, and they’ll be bringing their own antibiotics and everything else they would need to help make a difference out there,” Cherilus said.

Cherilus has partnered up with Haiti Outreach Mission, a group based on Troy, Mich., and he’s gotten help from a friend, Pat Lynch, who he went to school with to assemble the assistance.

Cherilus was raised in Haiti before moving to the U.S. for high school and then attending Boston College. The plan is for the group to spend a week there.

“You’re talking about young kids who lost their mother or their father,” he said. “We wanted to make sure we had a little bit of everything from a surgeon to paramedics, psychologists — all kinds of people.”

I have been critical of Cherilus’ play this past season, but hopefully, whether he ever becomes the player that we hope can become or not, he will be successful in his aid trip.

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