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Spring 2010
Vol. 26 No.1 |
These are numbers you might expect from a full out carpet bombing. Inevitably the Haitian government and big international aid agencies were overwhelmed and still are.
Plenty has been recruiting medical volunteers and helping to collect and ship supplies and giving small grants to grassroots organizations already in Haiti like Whirlwind Wheelchair International.
But we want to do much more. |
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| Plenty teamed up with the Louisiana/Haiti Sustainable Village Project which was created by a coalition of Katrina/Gulf Recovery veterans, to collect and load onto a barge 75,000 tons of emergency supplies bound for Haiti. Pictured above are some of the barge-loading crew. |
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| Half of all Haitian children suffer from malnutrition. (photo by Kate Priest) |
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| Left to right, Plenty partners Kate Priest, RN and Carolyn Bell, CNM and with local friend, Lasa, Helen Samuels of greendomeprojects.org and Daniel Sussot, MD of Airline Ambassadors, an international NGO, in Port-au-Prince. Kate and Carolyn traveled to Haiti in Feb. with Airline Ambassadors, volunteered at clinics and investigated opportunities for continuing relief work by Plenty and the other groups we are collaborating with. Plenty volunteer Elaine Langley, RN is in Haiti working at a clinic as we go to press. |
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Kate Priest checks a man’s blood pressure.
We’re finding high blood pressure to be a common condition. |
Kate Priest volunteered at this clinic in Cayes Jacmel
where they were seeing 280 patients a day. (photo by Kate Priest) |
Life expectancy for a Haitian woman is 54 years,
which is the lowest in the Western Hemisphere. (photo by Kate Priest) |
One of hundreds of tent cities that have sprung up but will
not survive the rainy season coming in May. (photo by Kate Priest) |
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