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Posts Tagged ‘haiti’

Plane to Haiti Mission 1 – Full Documentary

Plane to Haiti Mission 1 - Full Documentary from Dan Catullo on Vimeo. January 27, 2010- DC3 Global, Partnered with the Wheelchair Foundation- Launched it's first Haiti Relief mission to bring 25 volunteers & medical professionals plus 10,000 lbs of medical supplies to earthquake ravaged [...]

Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti’s Ruins

Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti’s Ruins

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — “Don’t cut off my leg!” Fabienne Jean screamed repeatedly as she was carried through the gates of the General Hospital here after the earthquake. “I’m a dancer. My leg is my livelihood. Please, don’t take my leg.” “It is a sad story,” Ms. Jean, 31, a [...]

Plane-to-Haiti Haiti relief mission Preview

Plane-to-Haiti Haiti relief mission Preview from DC3 Music Group on Vimeo. On January 13, 2010, DC3 Global and The Wheelchair Foundation (partnered with MedShare) launched an ambitious mission to send a private plane full of medical supplies and doctors to Haiti. Over the following weeks, dozens [...]

Haitian wreckage touches charity veteran

Haitian wreckage touches charity veteran

Jeff Behring is no stranger to need. He's traveled to impoverished areas all over the world making deliveries with his family's Wheelchair Foundation. When he returned to Port-au-Prince recently he was dismayed by the devastation. "I have never, ever seen anything like it," said Behring about [...]

Horrors of the Haiti Earthquake and the Power of Human Understanding

Yesterday I received this moving account from Los Angeles psychotherapist, Dr. Nancy Sobel, describing her experiences volunteering on a medical team in Haiti. It illustrates the incomparable power of human understanding in times of devastating collective trauma: "As I watched the compelling [...]

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