Olympic Gold Medalist Erin Hamlin, who competes in the luge, has proven that she’s a champion even before she competes in Vancouver during this year’s Winter Games. Hamlin is hosting a Direct Relief personal fundraising page to help people in Haiti. We say thanks this champion and the many others who are dedicated to supporting Haiti relief. From school groups
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Today, Direct Relief has dispatched three shipments valued at more than $1.1 million total (wholesale) to support our partners’ care for people injured in the Haiti earthquake. St. Damien Hospital in Port-au-Prince is treating a huge numbers of people injured in the quake. Direct Relief has sent St. Damien a consignment of medical material aid valued at almost $969,000 (wholesale),
Read more →Direct Relief has equipped two partner groups sending medical mission teams to Haiti with needed medical material aid. These teams will provide care to the many people injured and in need since the quake stuck. J/P Haitian Relief Organization, a team of 20 doctors experienced in emergency and trauma medicine, is flying to Haiti over the next few days to
Read more →Brett Williams, director of emergency response, sent this photo today from Port-au-Prince, where a large consignment for Partners in Health has been received. The 13 pallets of medical material aid will help PIH’s staff treat people injured in the quake at its facility in Port-au-Prince.
Read more →Direct Relief is deploying a consignment of medical aid tomorrow for The Socio-Cultural Movement of Haitian Workers (MOSCTHA), a partner based in the Dominican Republic. MOSCTHA sent its medical van to the border region Sunday to serve as a mobile medical clinic for refugees from Port-au-Prince. The consignment, valued at more than $176,000 (wholesale), includes broad-spectrum antibiotics, wound-care supplies (gauze,
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We have been able to organize the piles of medical supplies for the tent hospital that has been established in two large tents at the UN compound, where dozens of volunteer physicians from the States and several from France are working nonstop. Staff from the University of Miami and a team from New Jersey were among the many who had been
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