Summer 2010 in Port-au-Prince

From June-August 2010, I will be reporting with the Haitian Times in their Port-au-Prince bureau.  Stay tuned for more updates.
   

Haiti, January 2010

In January, 2010, I traveled to Haiti on an aid trip and was profoundly moved by the people I saw and spoke to.  Below is a gallery of photos I took while I was in Port-au-Prince, as well as a brief article I wrote for TheTakeaway.org.  

TheTakeaway.org: 
"In Haiti, Translating Loss"

After navigating an extremely difficult logistical situation, a group of us ended up at CDTI, a hospital normally open only to private patients. After the earthquake, its doors were thrown open to anyone who queued outside its gates, and its gleaming rooms were converted into makeshift operating rooms and triage units.

We spent just under two days at the hospital. My friend Aash and I, neither of us medical professionals, learned to dress wounds and assist surgeons. We spoke to survivors haunted by pain both physical and emotional. Amputations and fasciotomies were the most common procedures because so many people had been wounded by falling debris. Doctors told us that amputees are now likely to be a significant portion of the population because infection is such a common problem and regular follow-up care so desperately needed (and unlikely to occur).

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Donations to Haiti

Please consider donating to one of the following organizations, with operations on the ground helping the people devastated by the January earthquake:

Oxfam

Doctors Without Borders

International Red Cross / Red Crescent

Mercy Corps

UNICEF

Partners in Health

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