This just tears your heart down to pieces. With a lot of us working in High Rise Buildings, and some are even living in very High Condominiums , I fear for how disastrous a very strong earthquake would be for us. Hope we can help Haiti.
He cries talking about what he found there. For instance children without parents, wandering in desperation.
“I’m doing my best,” he says. “I’ll take another trip with UNICEF. So we can try to get all those children out there … you know, we have parents who have been trying to adopt for two or three years.”
At this point, tears are streaming down Dalembert’s face. “You know and … that’s frustrating me … you’re asking people to help. And kids have parents over there who want to adopt them. I’ve got a hundred parents, and you have a bunch of guys sitting down with the freaking papers. All it takes is one hour to go over everything, you know what I’m saying?
“I saw somebody’s leg amputated in front of me. Surgeries performed on a kitchen table … I’m talking about a folding kitchen table … I have some disturbing pictures. And it hurts. … There was no surgery room … You heard him screaming. … Not enough alcohol. Things we take for granted, you know. They try to make one bottle of alcohol last.
“Problems just keep occurring. There’s no machinery to move things around. It’s taking a long time to locate the people. I know everybody is doing their best. … It’s crazy over there.
“One thing really touched my heart the most is all the children. A lot of homeless children.”
Dalembert says he and Medishare are in the process of negotiating to get tents for “a ton” of people in Haiti.
via Samuel Dalembert, back from Haiti with a heavy heart – TrueHoop Blog – ESPN.