Archive for January, 2010

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1/28/2010 Update – Double Harvest Update

MEDICAL - We continue to make great progress at Double Harvest, but the work is still difficult. We are getting glimpses of hope and we are getting some stunning pictures. We are tending to 100s of people daily at the hospital by both [...]

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via email from Frantz (administer at DH)
HI to all
Again another very busy day at Double Harvest.  The day started early as I had to go to the airport to pickup 5 pallets of medical supplies donated by ISOH/IMPACT.  This is one of the new organizations that has been a great help to us thanks to [...]

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via cousin Abe van Wingerden
Friends of Double Harvest,
Our new rotation of fresh Board members is now in-house at Double Harvest and our new rotation of doctors is in as well.   The new teams are giving us a renewed stark reminder of the death, disease, and destruction as they are exposed to it for the first [...]

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My parents were able to get in to Haiti today from the Dominican.  They arrived at Double Harvest Haiti this morning. Below is an update from my Uncle Nick (who is currently there also)
Today went well. Maryke and Willem (my parents) arrived with some
goodies for us. The docs were able to do surgery to [...]

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*to see more photos from Double Harvest & Haiti after the earthquake go to
Double Harvest’s Facebook Page.*
via cousin Abe van Wingerden
As we begin the first wave of transition of both board members and medical teams at the site (Fresh people arrive on Saturday and Sunday), the positive momentum of Double Harvest and their work continues [...]

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In the last 24 hours, a tremendous opportunity opened up for Double Harvest Haiti.
the Haitian government is placing 400,000 homeless near Double Harvest.
“PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  —  Within days, the government will move 400,000 people made homeless by Haiti’s epic earthquake from their squalid improvised camps throughout the shattered capital to new resettlement [...]

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*to see more photos from Double Harvest & Haiti after the earthquake go to
Double Harvest’s Facebook Page.*
(received via email from Double Harvest Administrator Frantz)

Hi family and friends;
The person who said “time flies when you are having fun” was so right because the past few days every hour seems like forever.  We rejoice however [...]

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Another long day of work for our team in Haiti.
AFTERSHOCK – Haiti has had over 40 aftershocks so far since last Tuesday, but a large 6.0 magnitude aftershock hit early yesterday morning that was reported by many news organization. Due to the aftershock being very short and much deeper than the main earthquake, while the [...]

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(via cousin Abe van Wingerden)
Some progress, but so much to still be done.   The day was spent gathering supplies, putting up more temporary shelters, converting portions of the cafeteria into a makeshift post op room by using some donated mattresses, and laying to rest many friends and relatives of the Haitian team.

GOOD NEWS:
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*FUEL - [...]

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(via cousin Abe van Wingerden)

The ups and downs of relief efforts in Haiti continued today. Your continued support and prayers are helping. We are seeing progress in the middle of the chaos.
GOOD NEWS:
*FUEL - We received 750 gallons of fuel today at the PAP airport today!! It is not 7,000 gallons [...]

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