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Real Medicine has been invited to Protravel International’s 2010 Pre Tour Connection Event as a guest and beneficiary.
Protravel International works with the finest hotels, resorts, spas, cruise lines and tour companies in order to bring quality life experiences to our clients and will be holding this event as an introduction to their Los Angeles Tour Connection show.
Proceeds from the event will support Real Medicine’s work in Haiti as we strive to meet the countries immediate and long term health care challenges and ease the suffering of a people who have lost everything.
You are cordially invited to attend with us,
The following is an article called Time for the Warriors by Wyclef Jean about his work in Haiti, published in Huffingtonpost.com.
In this article, Wyclef touches on the impact of his warriors–people of all backgrounds, doing what they can to help people in need– and his vision for a better future in Haiti through Yele Village:
“I have started developing Yéle Village, which will give hundreds of people jobs, and we’re going to include a school, a substantial food production facility, a medical clinic and an orphanage.”
We would like to spotlight Wyclef’s work as a comprehensive, whole person approach to rebuilding Haiti now with a focus on the future. The nature of his work underscores the effect of friends helping friends as his warriors around the world fight for the lives of people who have no one else to turn to.
Project Timeline: Major Events in Weeks Following Earthquake:
➢ Week Two (Jan 18th): Real Medicine arrives on the scene in the Dominican Republic’s Haitian border and performs needs assessments at the following border hospitals in Jimaní:
o Good Samaritan Hospital
o Melenciano Hospital
Both facilities began receiving patients immediately after the earthquake and grew to become hubs for Advanced Surgery and Intensive Care procedures.
➢ Week Two (Jan 18th): RMF procures and delivers a shipment of over 3,500lbs in medical supplies and equipment, flown into Barahona, Dominican Republic, in support of efforts at:
o Trauma Units at both Jimaní hospitals
o An ICU for critically-injured children at the Barahona Medical Clinic.
➢ Week Three (Jan 26th): Tapping into its network of physicians, Real Medicine:
o Provided the first pediatrician in the Barahona area.
o Helped staff and coordinate a mobile outreach field clinic for several hundred patients at remote villages on the Haiti/ Dominican Republic border.
Today in New York the UN meet to discuss their plan to not just rebuild Haiti, but to make it better than it was before–to lift Haiti out of poverty once and for all:
“It is a plan to create a new Haiti. A Haiti where the majority of people no longer live in deep poverty, where they can go to school and enjoy better health, where they have better options than going without jobs or leaving the country all together.”
But on the ground the people of Haiti have little reason to trust international follow through. After years of failed policy with little long term effect, Haitians fear these new pledges might be more of the same.
Below are articles addressing Haiti recovery and local fears of being forgotten again.
The following article re-posted from liveshot.blogs.foxnews.com illustrates how non-profits faced with dwindling funds and daunting emotional needs are forced to find creative ways of keeping their promises to the people depending on them.Among the shrinking list of remaining aid groups, Real Medicine has stayed and is determined to stay until, quite simply, we are not needed anymore.
By Adam Clark Estes Editor of citizen journalism at the Huffington Post.
Haiti is still there. Shattered, starving and suffering, the Haitian people endure despite the media’s most recent retreat in coverage. And slowly, a rebuilt nation is rising from the rubble.
During the next ten weeks, members of the Huffington Post Citizen Reporting unit will chronicle these efforts on this blog. The team includes relief workers both on the ground in Haiti, members of international support teams like UNICEF and Oxfam as well as supporters dispatching help from their hometowns across the country.
It was ten weeks ago to the day that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake claimed the lives of an estimated 200,000 people in the Caribbean nation. In the days following the initial quake — aftershocks continued for weeks — over a million people were left homeless and hundreds of thousands needed medical treatment. During those days, stories of tragedy and heroism in Haiti blanketed cable news coverage and newspaper front pages. Celebrity anchors like Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper rushed to Port-au-Prince to dive into recovery efforts. At one point, the latter even stole the stage by pulling a blood-covered child out of harm’s way while filming on location.
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Joshua hasn’t always had this much attention. He was found after the earthquake hit by some rescue workers who were searching through the rubble for survivors. Joshua was significantly dehydrated, malnourished and bleeding profusely from deep lacerations to his arm. In the aftermath of the biggest earthquake to strike Haiti in more than a century, he had been left alone to fend for himself in the dust and rubble.
Somewhere between eight and ten years old (no one is sure), Joshua is non-verbal and struggles from the debilitating effects of Cerebral Palsy. He has clearly never received treatment for the disorder, which has especially stunted in his development. Yet when you look at him, Joshua stares right back into your eyes, offering facial expressions and hand gestures that tell you he understands much more about what is happening than he can convey.
Some weeks after abandoning him in the quake’s aftermath, Joshua’s mother learned of his new home at CDTI. She has dropped by a couple times since the quake to try and remove him from the hospital before his wound treatment has been completed. Joshua’s mother uses him to make a living, dragging him with her on the streets as a token of helplessness to use to beg for money. To her, she once told the hospital staff, he is nothing more than a dog.
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US President Barack Obama has warned of a second disaster in Haiti, saying people should be under no illusion that the crisis there is over.Mr Obama said the situation in Haiti remained “dire” almost two months after the earthquake struck.
He was speaking after talks with Haitian President Rene Preval in Washington.
Mr Obama told Mr Preval that the US would continue to help Haiti in its recovery and reconstruction efforts.
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