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Haiti Relief
From ME To Haiti
01/19/10
WGME 13 is proud to team up with the City of Portland and Konbit Sante for a telethon to raise money for the relief efforts in Haiti. From ME To Haiti begins with live broadcasts from Portland City Hall during Daybreak on Thursday, January 21. There will also be live broadcasts at Noon, Live at Five and News 13 at 6:00. Konbit Sante is a non-profit organization based in Portland that has been working to improve healthcare in Cap-Haitien and northern Haiti for nearly a decade. The organization already has Mainers on the ground in Haiti trying to help with relief efforts. The money raised during Thursday's telethon will go directly to Konbit Sante's efforts in Haiti. You'll hear more on just how great the need is, the great work Konbit Sante has already done, and what the group hopes to do in Haiti with your help. It's a chance to provide desperately needed aid - From ME to Haiti, all day Thursday, only on WGME 13. For more information, head to healthyhaiti.org.
01/19/10
WGME 13 is proud to team up with the City of Portland and Konbit Sante for a telethon to raise money for the relief efforts in Haiti. From ME To Haiti begins with live broadcasts from Portland City Hall during Daybreak on Thursday, January 21. There will also be live broadcasts at Noon, Live at Five and News 13 at 6:00. Konbit Sante is a non-profit organization based in Portland that has been working to improve healthcare in Cap-Haitien and northern Haiti for nearly a decade. The organization already has Mainers on the ground in Haiti trying to help with relief efforts. The money raised during Thursday's telethon will go directly to Konbit Sante's efforts in Haiti. You'll hear more on just how great the need is, the great work Konbit Sante has already done, and what the group hopes to do in Haiti with your help. It's a chance to provide desperately needed aid - From ME to Haiti, all day Thursday, only on WGME 13. For more information, head to healthyhaiti.org.
How You Can Help Haiti
01/14/10
Below is a list of organizations and contact numbers if you are interested in donating or helping in relief efforts after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The U.S. State Department Operations Center said Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti should call 1-888-407-4747. Due to heavy volume, some callers may receive a recording.
Action Against Hunger, 877-777-1420
American Red Cross, 800-733-2767
American Jewish World Service, 212-792-2900
AmeriCares, 800-486-4357
Beyond Borders, 866-424-8403
CARE, 800-521-2273
Catholic Relief Services, 800-736-3467
Childcare Worldwide, 800-553-2328
Direct Relief International, 805-964-4767
Doctors Without Borders, 888-392-0392
Feed My Starving Children, 763-504-2919
Food for the Poor, 800-427-9104
Friends of WFP, 866-929-1694
Haitian Health Foundation, 860-886-4357
Hope for Haiti, 239-434-7183
International Medical Corps, 800-481-4462
International Relief Teams, 619-284-7979
Medical Teams International, 800-959-4325
Meds and Food for Kids, 314-420-1634
Mennonite Central Committee, 888-563-4676
Mercy Corps, 888-256-1900
Operation USA, 800-678-7255
Oxfam, 800-776-9326
Partners in Health, 617-432-5298
The Salvation Army, 800-725-2769
Samaritan's Purse, 828-262-1980
Save the Children, 800-728-3843
UNICEF, 800-367-5437
World Concern, 800-755-5022
World Vision, 888-511-6548
01/14/10
Below is a list of organizations and contact numbers if you are interested in donating or helping in relief efforts after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The U.S. State Department Operations Center said Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti should call 1-888-407-4747. Due to heavy volume, some callers may receive a recording.
Action Against Hunger, 877-777-1420
American Red Cross, 800-733-2767
American Jewish World Service, 212-792-2900
AmeriCares, 800-486-4357
Beyond Borders, 866-424-8403
CARE, 800-521-2273
Catholic Relief Services, 800-736-3467
Childcare Worldwide, 800-553-2328
Direct Relief International, 805-964-4767
Doctors Without Borders, 888-392-0392
Feed My Starving Children, 763-504-2919
Food for the Poor, 800-427-9104
Friends of WFP, 866-929-1694
Haitian Health Foundation, 860-886-4357
Hope for Haiti, 239-434-7183
International Medical Corps, 800-481-4462
International Relief Teams, 619-284-7979
Medical Teams International, 800-959-4325
Meds and Food for Kids, 314-420-1634
Mennonite Central Committee, 888-563-4676
Mercy Corps, 888-256-1900
Operation USA, 800-678-7255
Oxfam, 800-776-9326
Partners in Health, 617-432-5298
The Salvation Army, 800-725-2769
Samaritan's Purse, 828-262-1980
Save the Children, 800-728-3843
UNICEF, 800-367-5437
World Concern, 800-755-5022
World Vision, 888-511-6548
Maine Volunteers Helping Haiti
01/14/10
Konbit Sante is a non-profit organization in the Portland area that's been volunteering their time to strengthen Haiti's healthcare system. Help them as they head to the country devastated by an earthquake.
http://www.healthyhaiti.org/
01/14/10
Konbit Sante is a non-profit organization in the Portland area that's been volunteering their time to strengthen Haiti's healthcare system. Help them as they head to the country devastated by an earthquake.
http://www.healthyhaiti.org/
Watch Videos on Haiti Relief
- Via WEAR TV-3/Pensacola, Florida -
GULF COAST - It's been exactly two weeks since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands and injuring even more.
In the past 14 days, donations have been pouring in from all over the Gulf Coast. Our own Dan Thomas followed 2 plane loads of supplies as they were distributed to people in desperate need.
Yesterday, he showed us how one doctor is cobbling together scraps to make medical equipment. He joins us know with a follow-up.
One of many remarkable people I met was a doctor using the goods and money people in the area are donating to save lives on the spot.
At times the pictures you're about to see are disturbing.
24 hours after we left Pensacola, medical supplies were in this doctor's hands and here's how he put it to work.
Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "I think there's a good chance, I've got the tendon covered."
Doctor Bill Tenhaaf is struggling to save this man's remaining fingers.
Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "So if you've got the 3 fingers you should be able to do pretty well."
If he gets the infection under control he'll be able to do a skin graft.
Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "This surgeon is a saint man, he's going to pull this guy through this."
Doctor Richard McGlaughlin of Birmingham flew in supplies in his personal plane and started making rounds with doctor Bill...
Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "You don't come across too many holy people in life but here's one."
Dan Thomas/Reporter: "This clinic here in Les Cayes is at capacity and they keep getting more for Port Au Prince everyday and not only are they short on beds, they're also short on supplies, so they have to improvise with what they have."
This is what's called an external fixador... To reset a broken bone...
Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "This is what it's supposed to look like. This is a proper external fixidor. It's a little bit done not right, because I had no X-ray to tell me when I was through the other side of the bone, so I just shot it through."
But Doctor Bill ran out, so he made his own... Out of pieces of re-bar and bondo.
Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "I couldn't do it with a car, he did it with a patient."
And what's most surprising? It's working.
Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "I thought this guy was going to lose his leg but I don't anymore. I think it looks like he's really going to settle down." "and I really love the re-bar. ha ha."
But the ingenuity only goes so far.... all 3 hospitals in Les Cayes are over capacity... People are lying on the floor and being treated in tents... and more keep coming everyday.
Even the victims lucky enough to see Dr. Bill likely won't have pain medications or antibiotics.
Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "Infections is going to be a huge problem over the next couple of months.
In the next few days we'll be bringing you more stories about helping Haitians.
If you want to help the relief efforts, log onto BahamasHabitat.org.
We also plan to go back to Haiti this weekend. If you have any questions you want answered or stories you want covered... E-mail Dan Thomas or leave him a message on Channel Three's Facebook page.
You can find all this information again by going to our website... weartv.com
GULF COAST - It's been exactly two weeks since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands and injuring even more.
In the past 14 days, donations have been pouring in from all over the Gulf Coast. Our own Dan Thomas followed 2 plane loads of supplies as they were distributed to people in desperate need.
Yesterday, he showed us how one doctor is cobbling together scraps to make medical equipment. He joins us know with a follow-up.
One of many remarkable people I met was a doctor using the goods and money people in the area are donating to save lives on the spot.
At times the pictures you're about to see are disturbing.
24 hours after we left Pensacola, medical supplies were in this doctor's hands and here's how he put it to work.
Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "I think there's a good chance, I've got the tendon covered."
Doctor Bill Tenhaaf is struggling to save this man's remaining fingers.
Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "So if you've got the 3 fingers you should be able to do pretty well."
If he gets the infection under control he'll be able to do a skin graft.
Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "This surgeon is a saint man, he's going to pull this guy through this."
Doctor Richard McGlaughlin of Birmingham flew in supplies in his personal plane and started making rounds with doctor Bill...
Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "You don't come across too many holy people in life but here's one."
Dan Thomas/Reporter: "This clinic here in Les Cayes is at capacity and they keep getting more for Port Au Prince everyday and not only are they short on beds, they're also short on supplies, so they have to improvise with what they have."
This is what's called an external fixador... To reset a broken bone...
Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "This is what it's supposed to look like. This is a proper external fixidor. It's a little bit done not right, because I had no X-ray to tell me when I was through the other side of the bone, so I just shot it through."
But Doctor Bill ran out, so he made his own... Out of pieces of re-bar and bondo.
Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "I couldn't do it with a car, he did it with a patient."
And what's most surprising? It's working.
Dr. Richard McGlaughlin/Volunteer Pilot and Doctor: "I thought this guy was going to lose his leg but I don't anymore. I think it looks like he's really going to settle down." "and I really love the re-bar. ha ha."
But the ingenuity only goes so far.... all 3 hospitals in Les Cayes are over capacity... People are lying on the floor and being treated in tents... and more keep coming everyday.
Even the victims lucky enough to see Dr. Bill likely won't have pain medications or antibiotics.
Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/RMInet.org Clinic: "Infections is going to be a huge problem over the next couple of months.
In the next few days we'll be bringing you more stories about helping Haitians.
If you want to help the relief efforts, log onto BahamasHabitat.org.
We also plan to go back to Haiti this weekend. If you have any questions you want answered or stories you want covered... E-mail Dan Thomas or leave him a message on Channel Three's Facebook page.
You can find all this information again by going to our website... weartv.com
Posted: Thursday, January 28 2010, 09:22:23 PM
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