Nine year old Sebastian learns to navigate around the tent city he now calls home with his crutches and new prosthesis provided by CBM
On the water’s edge of Port-au-Prince, an active boy forges his way through the narrow alley ways between tents, maneuvering over the rough terrain.
Six months after having his right leg amputated, [...]
By Beverly Perna
Ipswich Chronicle
Posted Feb 16, 2010 @ 06:32 PM
Ipswich —
Still emotionally raw after nearly a two-week tour of duty in earthquake-wracked Haiti, Carlos Heymann of Peatfield Street said he would do it again.
“Absolutely, absolutely!” he said without hesitation, even as he recalled the horrific conditions that met him in Haiti.
“There is no such thing [...]
Brian Hakala of Wichita landed in Haiti at 3 a.m. on Jan. 24, and went to work salvaging crushed human limbs by 7:15 that morning.
The sun was up by then, he said, “and we saw the magnitude of destruction and human suffering.”
“We had no time to feel anything emotionally,” said Hakala, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. [...]
By Laurence J. Ronan and Lisa I. IezzoniFebruary 9, 2010
IN THE aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, one group requires special attention: Those permanently disabled by devastating injuries. The exact number of newly disabled Haitians is unknown, but the wounds are obvious: amputations of arms, legs, hands, and feet; paralyzing brain and spinal cord injuries; extensive [...]
by Gallia Watch
(by Tiberge)
“To help you stay au courant of what French patriots are doing and saying in this time of turmoil and loss of nationhood. This website is for those with a limited knowledge of French and a boundless interest in saving European cultures from extinction.”
A woman pulled alive from the rubble following the [...]
As medical assistance moves into a second phase, with conditions finally improving for the practice of surgery and medicine, three MSF staff members describe how the teams treated patients in the ruins of the Delmas district in the immediate aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.
The Earth Shakes
It was the end of the day [...]
By John Lantigua
Associated Press
She is 17 and lovely. It is the time of life when a girl dreams of finding a boyfriend, strolling with him, dancing with him. Instead, Gaelle Eznard lies in a small red tent at a crowded, chaotic refugee camp in the Champs de Mars, a park in this demolished capital. Her family [...]
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