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Responding to the Earthquake in Haiti

National Summit on Emergency Management and Assistive Technology Reutilization February 23-24, 2010. Responding to the Earthquake in Haiti. Key Elements and Issues in AT Reuse as a Component in Emergency Management Chris Brand, FODAC.

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Responding to the Earthquake in Haiti

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  1. National Summit on Emergency Management and Assistive Technology Reutilization February 23-24, 2010 Responding to the Earthquake in Haiti Key Elements and Issues in AT Reuse as a Component in Emergency Management Chris Brand, FODAC Photos of AT Assistance from Portlight Strategies and FODAC

  2. Trucks picked up donations across Metro Atlanta and throughout the state.

  3. Donated items were checked and sanitized for immediate use.

  4. Volunteers packed and shrink-wrapped large boxes of devices.

  5. Hundreds of crutches and walkers were boxed for shipment.

  6. Packing and skidding in the FODAC warehouse.

  7. Containers were labeled with contents for ease of distribution in Haiti.

  8. Fifteen manual hospital beds went with the first shipment.

  9. Volunteers from Portlight, FODAC’s on-the-ground partner in Haiti.

  10. Donations from Georgia arrive at a camp in Haiti

  11. Portlight arranged vehicles to deliver equipment.

  12. Hospital beds arrive at a destination clinic on top of a van.

  13. Volunteer organizations worked together. This one “shopped” for what she needed from the supplies and equipment.

  14. Equipment and supplies inside the clinic

  15. Donated AT gets a new user

  16. Donated equipment and supplies in use in a tented treatment area

  17. Chris Brand Friends of Disabled Adults and Children, Too Stone Mountain, Georgia

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