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Remembering Haiti, every day
From Caribbean
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As the immediate memory of the Haiti earthquake starts to fade, three powerful new videos remind us what happened there on Jan. 12, and what lies ahead for Haitians. One video was produced by a Boston doctor who arrived two days later. The other two are by Globe reporters and photographers who covered the aftermath.
Dr. David Walton, a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital who has worked in Haiti for a dozen years, made it from Boston to Haiti just two days after the earthquake. On his first full day there, he and other doctors from Boston-based Partners in Health treated 800 earthquake victims.
Walton also is a talented amateur photographer, and he took many pictures at the hospital in those initial days. He now has created a powerful video of his photos. The video is narrated in part by Dr. Evan Lyon, a colleague from Partners in Health. Many of the photographs are disturbing. But if they help people remember that the suffering in Haiti hasn't ended, it will have achieved its goal.
I wrote in the Globe last week about Walton's work in Haiti with Jim Ansara, the construction magnate who worked shoulder to shoulder with Walton for 12 days at the wrecked general hospital in Port-au-Prince, helping restoring basic services. Back at home, Ansara's wife Karen was overseeing the Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Fund -- the Ansara family pledged $1 million to match public donations to the fund.
Here's a link to that fund, being administered through the Boston Foundation. As of today, the fund has raised $811,000 toward the $1 million matching goal.
Here's a photo that Jim Ansara took of Walton with a patient at the hospital.
Ansara had already been working with Walton on plans for an ambitious new hospital in the regional center of Mirebalais, northeast of the capital. Walton and Ansara are headed back there next week; that new hospital will be even more important now that the health services in the capital have been devastated.
My Globe colleagues, Stephen Smith, Dina Rudick, Maria Sacchetti and Bill Greene, reported from Haiti right after the quake. For days Steve and Dina they followed the work of doctors from Massachusetts who volunteered their time and skills to save lives in Haiti. Maria and Bill covered life in the streets.
Their work goes behind the public scenes. Maria and Steve convey the anguish of ordinary people trying to stay alive. Steve and Dina capture the hours of frustrating delays that kept doctors from treating patients for many hours and even days after they landed in Haiti.
Dina concludes by expressing her own fears that in three or six months, people will only vaguely remember what happened in Haiti -- even though the needs will be as great as ever.
Dr. David Walton, a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital who has worked in Haiti for a dozen years, made it from Boston to Haiti just two days after the earthquake. On his first full day there, he and other doctors from Boston-based Partners in Health treated 800 earthquake victims.
Walton also is a talented amateur photographer, and he took many pictures at the hospital in those initial days. He now has created a powerful video of his photos. The video is narrated in part by Dr. Evan Lyon, a colleague from Partners in Health. Many of the photographs are disturbing. But if they help people remember that the suffering in Haiti hasn't ended, it will have achieved its goal.
I wrote in the Globe last week about Walton's work in Haiti with Jim Ansara, the construction magnate who worked shoulder to shoulder with Walton for 12 days at the wrecked general hospital in Port-au-Prince, helping restoring basic services. Back at home, Ansara's wife Karen was overseeing the Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Fund -- the Ansara family pledged $1 million to match public donations to the fund.
Here's a link to that fund, being administered through the Boston Foundation. As of today, the fund has raised $811,000 toward the $1 million matching goal.
Here's a photo that Jim Ansara took of Walton with a patient at the hospital.
Ansara had already been working with Walton on plans for an ambitious new hospital in the regional center of Mirebalais, northeast of the capital. Walton and Ansara are headed back there next week; that new hospital will be even more important now that the health services in the capital have been devastated.
My Globe colleagues, Stephen Smith, Dina Rudick, Maria Sacchetti and Bill Greene, reported from Haiti right after the quake. For days Steve and Dina they followed the work of doctors from Massachusetts who volunteered their time and skills to save lives in Haiti. Maria and Bill covered life in the streets.
Their work goes behind the public scenes. Maria and Steve convey the anguish of ordinary people trying to stay alive. Steve and Dina capture the hours of frustrating delays that kept doctors from treating patients for many hours and even days after they landed in Haiti.
Dina concludes by expressing her own fears that in three or six months, people will only vaguely remember what happened in Haiti -- even though the needs will be as great as ever.
About this blog
Worldly Boston is James F. Smith's report on people from our community who are making an impact in the world, and on people from abroad doing noteworthy things in Greater Boston. We live in the most global of communities. Worldly Boston helps share those stories.
About James F. Smith
Jim Smith came home to his native Boston in 2002 to become the Boston Globe's foreign editor after spending 22 years abroad. He was previously based in Buenos Aires and Mexico City for the LA Times, and in Johannesburg, Tokyo and The Hague for the AP. In 2007 he became the Globe's national political editor, coordinating presidential campaign coverage. He is a Yale graduate, and has an MBA. He is married to Maxine Hart and has two sons, Matthew and Daniel.
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