Cange is a small remote village in the Central Plateau of Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

. Cange is the location of an American

United States

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 funded hospital, Zanmi Lasante

Zanmi Lasante

Zanmi Lasante is a sister organization to the Boston-based Partners In Health that operates out of Cange in central Haiti. The name, Zanmi Lasante, means Partners In Health in Kreyòl. It was built in 1985 to treat patients incapable of paying hospital fees...

, run by Partners in Health

Partners In Health

Partners In Health is a Boston, Massachusetts-based non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing a "preferential option for the poor". It was founded in 1987 by Dr. Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, Thomas J. White, Todd McCormack, and Dr...

. Cange sits on the edge of Lake Péligre

Lake Péligre

Lake Péligre is the second largest lake in Haiti, and is located in the Centre Department. Tracy Kidder describes it as "beautiful, blue waters set among steep, arid mountains"....

, created by a large hydroelectric dam. Some notable residents of Cange have been and are Dr. Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer

Dr. Paul Edward Farmer is an American anthropologist and physician. He is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician and Chief...

 and Father Fritz Lafontant.

There is a population of 30,000 people within a radius of 7 km.

Important Events in the history of Cange:

• 1956 — Cange was submerged by a dam on the Artibonite River
  Artibonite River
  The Artibonite River is a 320 km long river in Haiti . It is the longest as well as the most important river in Haiti and the longest on the island of Hispaniola. Forming part of the international border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the river's sources are in the Cordillera Central in...
  
  
• 1962 — Father Fritz and Yolande Lafontant established a primary school for the children.
• 1983 — Lafontants and their colleagues are joined by Paul Farmer
• 1985 — Bon Sauveur is established
• 1986 — First case of AIDS
  AIDS
  Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
  
  in the Central Plateau is identified in Cange