![]() ![]() Porters elbowed in and grabbed our bags, then asked for more than the five dollars apiece we gave them. Car horns blare, goats bleat and roosters crow. But the cholera epidemic, which broke out after the earthquake and has killed 7,500 so far, scared me most. If there was no revolt going on, as in 2004, or natural disaster, there were kidnappings, lack of medical care, even nasty intestinal infections from a stray sip of local water. ![]() State Department has maintained a travel warning for cholera and urges people not to travel to Haiti for "nonessential" trips. Anything I read about Haiti said the small republic held layers of danger for visitors. As the time drew near, a sense of dread crept over me. But visiting was fundamentally different. I'd read about Haiti and given money to help. He finds any way he can to save and improve lives in some of the most impoverished villages in the western hemisphere. For 12-14 hours each day, Ben met with politicians, health workers, nuns, priests, Kazaks (a sort of justice of the peace), teachers, patients, and more to provide access to clean water, basic health care, nutrition and education in the remote coastal area of Pestel. Ben Fredrick, President of Thriving Villages International and head of the Global Health Center at Penn State Hershey. Within three days, the 439th Airlift Wing flew emergency supplies to Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., to transport to Port-au-Prince as part of Operation Unified Response. On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, with the epicenter just 15 miles west of Port-au-Prince, killing more than 300,000 and leaving about one million homeless. Nearly three years after Haiti's lethal earthquake, and the 439th Airlift Wing's humanitarian response, I visited the recovering country. The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun. ![]()
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