Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Haitian Spirit Survives

The next two posts are videos of a gathering of thousands of people in Port-au-Prince marking the one month anniversary of the powerful earthquake that devastated the country and killed over 200,000 people.

I will be traveling to Haiti the last of March with a medical team. I plan to take hundreds of pictures and video some interviews with the people living in the outlying villages. IMO is setting up a tent city at Boutin, the village where their main medical clinic is located. I plan to compile my photos and video clips into mini-documentaries for IMO to use at the annual conference. They have used several of my photos for PR for the organization.

I wrote a pamphlet for IMO to recruit medical teams and financial support for the medical clinics. On my last trip, I revised the prescription form used by the doctors in our clinics. It's faster and easier for both the doctors and the people filling the prescriptions.

Although I have major problems with back and leg pain, I can manage it with strategic use of pain meds and muscle relaxers, when necessary.

Pray for the people of Haiti. They had nothing, and now what little they had has been destroyed.

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