Haiti Community Support - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (MEDICAL STATION)

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Command & Control, Medical Unit Updated Jan 25, 2010
Demographic Served: Survivors, Natural Disaster Impacted Communities Updated Jan 25, 2010
Demographic Served: Sustainable Communities Updated Jan 25, 2010
Demographic Served: Vulnerable & Marginalized Populations Updated Jan 25, 2010
Medical, Education, Health Awareness Updated Jan 25, 2010
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Medical, Supplies, Gauze Pads ** (ANY/ALL Types) Very Urgent Updated Jan 25, 2010

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2010 Haiti Earthquake ArchivedJoined Jan 21, 2010

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About this facility

Mission: Our mission is to assist the community of Au Centre/Beaumont in Haiti and its surrounding region immediately through programs that improve education, health and quality of life of its people. And ultimately, we will assist through economic programs that make the community self-sustaining. This isolated region in Southern Haiti is an area with no schools, healthcare, or adequate food that is remote even by Haitian standards. We are doing this work because no one else is doing it. We operate under arduous conditions, but the need is so extreme that any help we provide makes a world of difference for the village. Our educational, health and economic programs are designed and executed by the villagers. Program funds are spent in the village, improving the economy. By addressing critical needs simultaneously: health, education, economics, progress is more sustainable.
Service: Temporary

Notes

Haiti Community Support, Co-Director Mathilde Aurelien-Wilson arrived in Port au Prince last Thursday Three days after the quake, with the Port au Prince airport closed, she flew to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic . On the way overland into Haiti, she survived a near fatal bus collision.

Since arrival in Port au Prince last Thursday Mathilde has recruited 25 survivors to staff and run a neighborhood medical station. Many of the staff themselves are wounded: doctors and nurses, security and logistics, cooks and drivers, porters. Some staff are assigned to simply hold hands to comfort the sick and the shattered.

HCS Medical Leader for Bon Repos is First Responder Peter Dybing, who has coordinated and administered care to hundreds of untreated people. He has been tireless, and heroic. He told me that the thing he just can't understand is where are the other medics? Why are these wounds now threatening lives, and headed for amputation just for lack of medics?

Mathilde and her team have been sharing the life of their patients and of her family members. They sleep each night on the ground, no tent, no roof of any kind. I asked her what those nights are like. She paused a long time, and she told me that each night, as she sits amongst her family with 40 neighbors huddled together under the sky, she said there are times where she's felt a peace unlike anything she’s ever felt before. She finished by saying, "I know I am in the right place"... I asked her what the world should know about Haiti tonight. Here's what she had to say:

"Please tell the world that we Haitians are peaceful. The people of Port au Prince have suffered a terrible loss, they are confused why the aid is behind fences. Tell the world that I, a Haitian woman, organizing my people, am forbidden access to your supply depots. Please stop worrying about security! People are dying of thirst, of starvation, of simple fractures or deep cuts. Please step down your security and move your medics and supply trucks into our neighborhoods. We Haitians are the First Responders. Help us. Gauze pads please!”

Please donate on-line. WWW.HAITISUPPORT.ORG Help us keep treating the wounded.

With gratitude,
Bruce & Mathilde Wilson

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Volunteer
Please contact us if you can help by volunteering in these areas:

• Public Relations: press releases and liaison, photo ops, public service announcements.

• Events Planning and Execution: annual fundraiser, new events, speaking opportunities.

• Graphics Design: brochures, presentations, newsletter, fact sheets, displays.

• Administrative Support: mailings, updating databases and general documents.

• Grant Research/Writing: researching funding opportunities, overseeing funding application process.

• Legal Help: general legal support and advice.

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For questions about our programs, to volunteer your services, or to discuss you donation, please contact us:

Mathilde and Bruce Wilson

Haiti Community Support
PO Box 696
Frederiksted, VI 00841

Telephone: +1-340-772-4380
info @haitisupport.org