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Jun292011

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CURE Haiti documentary selected for film festival

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Nearly everyone is familiar with the devastation caused by January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.  CURE International’s hospital in the neighboring Dominican Republic was uniquely positioned to be able to immediately respond to the acute medical and surgical needs of those hit hardest by the earthquake.  It was CURE’s first large-scale disaster response and proved to be a seminal moment for the organization.

CURE's Haiti response documentary is an official selection of the 2011 Lights. Camera. Help. Film Festival Born for this Moment is a documentary film created by CURE that chronicles our response to the earthquake.  Now, Born for this Moment has been named an official selection for the 2011 “Lights. Camera. Help.” film festival for nonprofit and cause-driven films.  As an organization, CURE is deeply honored to have Born for this Moment included in the film festival.  We are even more pleased that a wider audience will be able to see the hard work of Bryce Alan Flurie, our multimedia producer, who edited the film and shot much of the footage, as well as Dale Brantner, Gerry Straub, and Mitch Hood, who also contributed to the film.

Watch Born for this Moment: http://uk.cure.org/haiti-movie/

Learn more about Lights. Camera. Help. http://lightscamerahelp.org/about

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Feb012010

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Bryce Alan Flurie Haiti Press

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Bryce Alan Flurie, CURE’s multimedia producer, traveled to Haiti last week to document the work of the CURE Haiti Relief Team.

Upon his return, he was able to share his trip with the news media in the Central Pennsylvania area.

Here are some of these stories from ABC 27, WGAL NBC 8 and WITF’s Radio Smart Talk. (Bryce’s interview starts around the 26-minute mark.)

Although Bryce is more comfortable BEHIND the camera as opposed to in front of it, we think he did a great job!

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Jan272010

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Jose’s Story

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Story about Jose from Haiti from CURE Video on Vimeo.

In the midst of the chaos of CURE’s work in Haiti, there was one boy everybody was talking about. You couldn’t miss his adorable face and sad eyes as he looked up from his mat on the floor. I saw him and grabbed the first interpreter I could find.  Here is Jose’s story.

Bryce Flurie is CURE International’s multimedia producer. He recently traveled to Haiti as part of the CURE Haiti Relief Team working with the victims of January 12th’s devastating earthquake.

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Jan242010

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Samuel Reyes

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In Bryce Flurie’s story, he mentioned CURE International’s spiritual director for the D.R. hospital, Samuel Reyes.

Pastor Reyes and Pastor Seguerre Bellevue, a Haitian chaplain, had left the D.R. on Friday to help provide comfort and hope to the suffering people of Haiti.  Watch the video to learn more…

How can you Help?

Click here to give a gift to CURE Haiti

or text CURE to 85944 to give a $10 gift through your cell phone.

And to help support CURE’s response to the earthquake in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, add the following message to your Facebook/Twitter/email signature:
Help CURE in Haiti: http://uk.cure.org/haitirelief or txt CURE to 85944 to give a $10 gift. Follow: http://uk.cure.org/blog

CURE’s Noel Lloyd and Bryce Flurie are in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reporting on CURE’s work there to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

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Jan242010

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Update from Haiti and the D.R.

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Good morning from the D.R.

Here are a few updates for you…

CURE’s Bryce Flurie has arrived safely in Santo Domingo after three days in Haiti with the CURE Haiti Relief Team. Yesterday, he sent us some notes from his day there on Saturday:

On the way to the hospital this morning, the Saturday market was in full swing. Fresh fruit and vegetables were actually on the road side. Last night though, people were still setting up cinder blocks across the the roads so they could sleep in the street…cardboard beds in the middle of the street…lined up by the dozens…I tried to take a picture, but it was way too dark.

As we passed the fruit stands this morning we noticed a human bone sticking out of a garbage bag on top of a dumpster…life-giving fruit on one side of the road and dead bodies in a dumpster across the street – Haiti is contrast after contrast. People starving, but sidewalks lined with fruit no one can afford.

Trying to respect people’s emotional space with all the trauma they’ve gone through and trying to tell you all what is happening here. Like this that happened at the hospital today…

We heard a woman yelling “MAAAMAAA, NOOOO! MAAAMAAAA, MAAAMAAA!” I was on the second floor and looked down to see one of the doctors standing on a chair giving a woman CPR. Then the paddles came out. CLEAR! We’ve all seen it on TV, but this was as real as it gets. Doctors and personnel crowded around…CURE International’s spiritual director for the D.R. hospital, Samuel Reyes, took the woman’s screaming daughter into a room and calmed her down. I can’t tell you what he said; she emerged looking worried, but much more calm. Emotions ran quite high, but her pulse returned; and she was transferred to another facility.

Not all of the stories have happy endings, but there are also amazing triumphs and miracles happening daily in this challenging situation.

You’ll read more of Bryce’s stories in the days to come….

Here at the D.R. hospital, we had two more Haitian patients come to us for surgery:  a little girl named Islande and a teenage boy called Oslin.  They were both referred by a nearby hospital.

Islande arrived at the hospital with her father.  She and her mother had been been trapped in their house in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake, but were rescued.  The father had been at work.  He frantically sprinted home to find his family alive. But Islande needed medical help;  her thighbone was fractured.  Somehow, thanks to the help of many Good Samaritans, they found their way to Santo Domingo and our hospital.  The CURE surgeons were able to perform surgery yesterday, and the prognosis for recovery is positive.

Islande

Islande

The other patient, Oslin, has a heartbreaking story. After the earthquake, his right leg was so badly injured it had to be amputated while in Haiti. He was brought over to Santo Domingo and sent to our hospital for surgery on his other leg. I soon learned that not only did Oslin have no right leg, he was an orphan, alone, with nobody in Santo Domingo. It broke my heart.  After his surgery, he was transferred back to the other hospital for recovery.  He looked so sad and lost as they wheeled him to the ambulance.  As I watched the red lights of the ambulance  fade into the Santo Domingo night, I whispered a prayer as I tried to hold back the tears.

Oslin

Oslin

Also, an update on Bernadine, the patient I mentioned on Thursday.  Her pelvis will be okay without surgery, but she did need surgery on her foot.  We’ll keep the updates coming.

If you want to help patients like Islande, Oslin and Bernadine, please consider contributing to the CURE Haiti Relief Fund here.

How can you Help?

Click here to give a gift to CURE Haiti

or text CURE to 85944 to give a $10 gift through your cell phone.

And to help support CURE’s response to the earthquake in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, add the following message to your Facebook/Twitter/email signature:
Help CURE in Haiti: http://uk.cure.org/haitirelief or txt CURE to 85944 to give a $10 gift. Follow: http://uk.cure.org/blog

CURE’s Noel Lloyd and Bryce Flurie are in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reporting on CURE’s work there to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

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Jan222010

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On the Ground from Haiti

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Hi, Noel Lloyd from the DR.

It’s been a pretty eventful day here at the hospital in Santo Domingo.

It started with the arrival of a patient from Haiti about whom I had written earlier in the day…and ended with the homecoming of two original members of the CURE Haiti Relief Team:  Steve Bostian and Susan Beemer.  Both are exhausted, but safely home.

Another safe arrival we celebrated on Thursday was that of the team from Dallas into Haiti.

Coming in with the Dallas crew was Bryce Flurie, from the CURE Pennsylvania office.  Bryce is on the ground to get stories and images from the hospital. We’ve already posted a couple of his pictures.

I received a call from him this afternoon right after his arrival at the Community Hospital of Haiti, and he reported that there was activity everywhere as the trucks that had accompanied the team were being unloaded.

“People have formed a bucket brigade unloading supplies from the trucks that came with us.  The local kids are helping out,” he said.

Bryce went on to describe the tent city that had been created around the hospital by the patients who were waiting for their turn for treatment.

Later on in the evening, he sent me this update.

So, I haven’t had more than five minutes of sleep in close to two days, but that is nothing compared to the sacrifice of the folks here. No one is turned away, there are doctors making rounds and as everyone sits in the makeshift group room they discuss the cases…like how do you treat tetanus since no one has seen it in the states.

I’m hearing stories of the kids that melt your heart…listening to a veteran doctor talk about how difficult it was to amputate a girl’s arm…then to see her in a pretty dress smiling the next day, knowing she’ll be ok.

I had prepared for the worst…sure there are still hungry people here, people who are in excruciating physical pain and people with absolutely nothing but a sheet and a piece of cardboard to lay on.

But nothing can replace the smile on the young girl’s face, who had just lost her arm a couple days before, when she sees a proper cot brought in to replace the rotting foam she had been laying on.

People are still people, kids still smile when a weird looking man with a big camera makes a funny face at them and God is still good…even in the midst of complete devastation.

Keep looking for more posts (and photos) from Bryce.

How can you Help?

Click here to give a gift to CURE Haiti

or text CURE to 85944 to give a $10 gift through your cell phone

And to help support CURE’s response to the earthquake in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, add the following message to your Facebook/Twitter/email signature:
Help CURE in Haiti: http://uk.cure.org/haitirelief or txt CURE to 85944 to give a $10 gift. Follow: http://uk.cure.org/blog

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Jan172010

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CURE Relief Team Now Operating at Two Hospitals, 24-7

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Another CURE Haiti update.

Four planes bringing relief teams and supplies have landed in Haiti.

The team (from Dallas, Tx.), which included nine doctors and nine nurses along with much-needed supplies, landed yesterday.

CURE now has two functioning surgical centers in two hospitals operating around the clock in Port-au-Prince.

There are now more teams and supplies being mobilized for departure later in the week.

We heard from Steve Bostian, one of the team members on the ground in Haiti.

He has been all over the city picking up people and supplies at the airport and meeting with officials of various organizations.

He says the team is working with very little sleep, trying to save as many lives as possible. The new doctors and nurses have proven to be a God-send.  There is a network of bilingual Haitian logistics workers who are also assisting the team.

He also reports that the men and women in the heroic search and rescue teams throughout the city continue to find people alive in the rubble.

Sadly, there is also intense suffering, and supplies are running low in the city.

Please pray for the team as it continues to save as many lives as possible and for the people who are in need of acute medical care.

Please also pray for the people who are without homes and who are in need of essentials like water and food.  Please pray that these supplies can be distributed as quickly as possible.

Remember you can donate to the CURE Haiti Relief Fund by going here.

You can also text CURE to 85944 to give a $10 gift via your mobile phone.  (Charges will appear on your bill.)

THANK YOU to all of you who have given so far.  The response has been tremendous!

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Jan162010

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Additional Help Has Landed

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Great news!  Just got word that the relief workers who were flying in to Haiti have landed safely. They were flying in from Texas.  They and the supplies they have brought are now enroute to the hospital where the CURE team is working.

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Jan162010

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Haiti Team Working Nonstop

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Here is the latest news….

The Haiti Relief Team has set up shop at the Hopital du la Comunaute Haitienne in Port-au-Prince.  It has been working nonstop to save as many lives as possible.  The biggest challenge right now is gangrene has set in with patients.  Dr. Scott Nelson reports everyone on the team is safe.

At this moment, an additional 25+ relief workers and supplies are flying into Haiti. Once they are in the country, they’ll join the CURE relief team.  Other teams are currently being mobilized.

Supplies are being sent from a number of different sources.  MedShare is sending 600 cases of supplies. The CURE hospital in the Dominican Republic is sending supplies both in the air and on land.

We’d like to send a special thanks to the Boulos family, who has been hosting the medical team.  They’ve also been a tremendous help in arranging logistics.

More information is coming; will post as I get more….

Donations to help earthquake victims can be made here.

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Jan142010

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Haiti Team

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Good news! We just received word that the CURE Haiti Relief Team has departed from Santo Domingo and is onroute to Port-au-Prince!

Click here to donate to our relief efforts in Haiti

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