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New Group of HOPE Volunteers

Get to Work in Haiti

The next group of Project HOPE volunteers pose for a group photo before they start their journey to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where they will work as part of the emergency medical team onboard the hospital ship, USNS Mercy.

As new Project HOPE volunteers begin their orientation to the ship and received their assignments, ship personnel have expressed their appreciation for relief from their duty which lasted 12-20 hours a day in the first weeks of the quake.

Volunteers toured the Casualty Receiving ward today, becoming familiar with the equipment and meeting some of the patients like 13-year old Peniel Pierre.  Peniel was visiting his aunt in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake hit. His aunt was killed and Peniel was hit in the head with a brick. He is now blind in one eye and suffers severe migraines. Almost a month after the quake, this is his first real medical care.

 

His father, Kastin Pierre, spoke quietly in Creole with Project HOPE volunteer Marie-Angie Casimir, his face drawn, about the search for his children immediately after the quake and his frustration trying to find medical care for Peniel. Casimir, who is Haitian and lived in the country until she was 13-years-old, listened intently and eventually drew a smile from Kastin.  Project HOPE volunteers making a difference once again.