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Mutual Aid Disaster Relief in Haiti has been a diverse network
of individuals and organizations which worked in solidarity with
the people of Haiti during the two months following the January 2010 earthquake.
We are in the process of shutting down this short-term project, while people
from this network are joining longer-term projects (see "Current Information",
below.) The network consisted of many different skilled volunteers including
doctors, nurses, acupuncturists, herbalists, construction specialists, cooks,
communication technicians, and community organizers, coming from many different
backgrounds and professions, but bound together by our common belief in providing
solidarity and not charity.
Current Information:
- Being Able to Move Heaven and
Earth for Haiti: This organization
is a multi-faceted group which is working on a rehabilitation center,
an orphanage project, a school-building project, a psychology project,
and an adopt-a-local worker project which will pair up Haitian volunteers
with international donors. The organization plans to have a long-term
presence in Haiti starting March 13, 2010.
- Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: This project will be be a membership
organization
which will provide a prepared, radical, speedy (preferably within
24 hours) disaster response
team for future disasters anywhere in the world. They are looking into
independent funding to
allow them to move quickly, and to be able to sponsor trainings for
their members including
Wilderness EMT training, search-and-rescue training, and language skills
education including
Spanish, French, and Mandarin. For more information at this time, either
to volunteer (WEMTs, EMTs, Paramedics, Nurses, Physicians) or to donate,
contact Roger.
- Herbs4Orphans (H4O) is
a non-profit organization herbalist group that provides nutritional
solutions for underprivileged youth in poverty-stricken
countries worldwide. Thomas Easley, a board member of H4O and a member
of MADRiH's Team Bad Idea
Dinosaur (the first MADRiH team to arrive in Haiti), is planning to
develop some mobile clinics that allow for exchange between Haitian
herbalists and American herbalists, treating patients while increasing
everybody's level of
training. He does not have the funding or the time to make this happen
within the next few
months, but would be happy to support another herbalist if they wanted
to take the lead and do a
lot of the detail work that needs to be done. Otherwise he will start
work on this later in 2010.
- Haiti Modular Concrete House Project: This project is undertaking
the building of a demonstration, earthquake-resistant, easily-built
house in Haiti, with a joint effort between a local Haitian concrete
company, Marty Rowland from MADRiH, and the Brownstone
Company of Hoboken,
NJ, which is handling fundraising and manufacture of the first house.
If all goes well, a long-term project will begin to create a technology
transfer for the type of concrete required so that it can be produced
locally in Haiti, and to build many houses as well as creating sanitary
septic systems.
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Historical Information about Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
in Haiti:
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We have:
- Provided direct medical aid, medical and social advocacy;
- Documented the developing situation on the ground and provided an alternative
media source; and
- Established a grassroots structure that allows the effective distribution
of aid, passing this structural information along to longer-term operational
groups.
Page last updated: Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:40 AM HT
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