Earthquake Relief Efforts in Haiti

Haiti Earthquake Relief
Written by Richard Ruppenstein, PA WCC

Dedicated to my new friends, Michael and Andrea Brewer, Haitian Missionaries
My trip to aid the victims of earthquake devastation, Port Au Prince, Haiti, January 2010

Having been to Thailand after the tsunami in 2005 I knew what to expect as far as wounds and infections and how many days after the trauma did we have to save limb and life after the earthquake in Haiti.  As I watched the TV news reports about how little help was getting to the majority of injured I knew more lives would be lost in the remote areas than would be saved in the major cities where all the large "tent cities" were being erected in front of the TV cameras and reporters. The problem in these third world countries ( if there is such a label as a forth world country Haiti would qualify) is that most people have no way to get to the cities where the help is.  They do not have roads or transportation systems like we do here in the US.  They really do use animals to pull carts in many places throughout the world to get anywhere.  Haiti being the poorest country in the hemisphere with the highest crime rate as well is an extremely dangerous place and initially I thought it out of the question to travel there to help the injured. Click here for the complete story.