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Dark smudges escape a myriad charcoal and refuse fires into the dense smog that hangs warm and moist above the Haitian city, Port au Prince. Since the earthquake five weeks ago life here has returned to its carnival colors and bustling crowds, the decorated Tap-tap taxis and busy street-markets under rainbow umbrellas keeping the ever thriving throng of people flowing through the rubble lined streets.
This city is also the melting pot at the moment of so many international volunteers with aid organizations who have descended on the carnage like vultures, to help clean up the debris, maintain stability, provide food and emergency medical services.
Under Hosing Works Pete Sananman has been an invaluable resource in the PHAB+ Clinic, coaching the EMT volunteers, encouraging the local volunteer translators, and applying his medical and ER management skills to speed up the efficiency and effectiveness of activities. His contribution to the University of Miami Field Hospital ER department has also been invaluable. We have been able to refer many patients to UMFH where our skills or facilities at the PHAB+ Clinic were insufficient for the medical needs of these patients.
Pete continues as an efficient segment in the HW three-man volunteer team (with Rowan Lewis and Jonny Eisenberg, both wilderness EMTs with SOLO Wilderness Medicine School, NH) as they carry the projects of Housing Works forward in Haiti.
:)Rowan
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