On the news all I've seen is people waiting for help. Here is a story that needs to be told - an international medical group already there who began work immediately.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization. They have already been in Haiti 19 years. Their 60 bed surgery in Port-au-Prince was hit hard so the staff, 800 local/30 international moved outdoors and began treatments immediately. A reinforcement convoy arrived overland from the Dominican Republic on Friday 1/15.
Haiti: MSF Treats 2,000 Patients; Working to Expand Surgical Capacity
Jan 15, 2010
In Haiti, MSF Treats Earthquake Survivors
Jan 16, 2010
Haiti: MSF Surgical Activities Are Non-Stop; Needs Remain Huge
Jan 16, 2010
I am a little familiar with MSF; they were operating in some of the same areas as Peace Corps. I was incredibly impressed with the dedication of their volunteers (from all over, mostly France) and their ability to provide world class emergency trauma care under apalling conditions.
I am enormously proud that one daughter's Christmas present to us this year was a contribution in our name to MSF.
Please consider donating to them to support their continuing medical mission in Haiti, and in other backwaters that nobody ever heard of. I think of them as living saints.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization. They have already been in Haiti 19 years. Their 60 bed surgery in Port-au-Prince was hit hard so the staff, 800 local/30 international moved outdoors and began treatments immediately. A reinforcement convoy arrived overland from the Dominican Republic on Friday 1/15.
Haiti: MSF Treats 2,000 Patients; Working to Expand Surgical Capacity
Jan 15, 2010
In Haiti, MSF Treats Earthquake Survivors
Jan 16, 2010
Haiti: MSF Surgical Activities Are Non-Stop; Needs Remain Huge
Jan 16, 2010
I am a little familiar with MSF; they were operating in some of the same areas as Peace Corps. I was incredibly impressed with the dedication of their volunteers (from all over, mostly France) and their ability to provide world class emergency trauma care under apalling conditions.
I am enormously proud that one daughter's Christmas present to us this year was a contribution in our name to MSF.
Please consider donating to them to support their continuing medical mission in Haiti, and in other backwaters that nobody ever heard of. I think of them as living saints.
