A note from Bette:
What a day!
We got up at 4 and down to the warf to film some interviews...then the boat coming in and people getting off...but I can't send this.
Two of us then worked as ambulance drivers alongside others to bring about 40 patients out of 1500 to the hospital...not as many as we thought.
Private vehicles and 5 ton trucks, buses and motorcycles volunteered to bring people home so that by 10:30am the warf was pretty empty.
The community of Jeremie came together - boy scouts and brigades, Cuban doctors, Haitian medical residents and nursing students, business people, Doctors of the World, CARE, CRS and us - HHF.
It will take some time to translate the video so those stories will come later.
Bette
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These shots were just taken early this morning in Jeremie .
they were held up for another 36 hours by the local police inspecting bags, ID's etc.
wanting to make sure that the escaped prisoners from PaP were not among them.
Holding on to all that is left
Clear and cool day for unloading people and goods
Doctors and nurses triage and wound care station
Two young girls eating protein bars after the long voyage
Mother and baby
Grandmother waiting to be picked up to return to Marfranc
World Food Program protein biscuits enough for 800
One of the 10 pregnant woman - this one off to Chambellan
CARE hygiene kits for 350
Nixon the HHF driver helping people off the boat
Gene & Shelba Pollic
Galatians 6:9