Haitian Amputee Coalition http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org Bringing Help, Hope, and Healing to Haitian Amputees Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:53:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Haitian Amputee Coalition in the News http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/content/haitian-amputee-coalition-in-the-news/ http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/content/haitian-amputee-coalition-in-the-news/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:16:06 +0000 Editor http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/?p=246 The Haitian Amputee Coalition’s efforts to bring help, hope and healing to victims of the devastating earthquake near Port-Au-Prince is in the news. Read more at Forbes.com here.

]]> http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/content/haitian-amputee-coalition-in-the-news/feed/ 0 Coalition Partners Work Together in Prosthetic Limb Drive http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/content/coalition-partners-work-together-in-prosthetic-limb-drive/ http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/content/coalition-partners-work-together-in-prosthetic-limb-drive/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:31:39 +0000 Editor http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/?p=214 Haitian Amputee Coalition partners Hanger Ivan R. Sabel Foundation and Physicians for Peace are teaming up to conduct a nationwide prosthetic limb drive.

As the Red Bluff Daily News reports, the coalition partners are seeking donations of limbs no longer needed by their original owners so they can be reused by the thousands of Haitians who lost limbs in January’s devastating earthquake.

]]> http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/content/coalition-partners-work-together-in-prosthetic-limb-drive/feed/ 0 5,000 translated brochures on wound care delivered to Haitian amputees http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/content/translated-brochures-wound-care-for-haitian-amputees/ http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/content/translated-brochures-wound-care-for-haitian-amputees/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:14:03 +0000 Editor http://haitian-amputee-coalition.org/?p=68 Without proper instruction, limbs will heal in ways that will make it impossible to ever receive a prosthetic fitting. These brochures will ensure that our team can provide the prosthetics that so many Haitian amputees so desperately need.

See the wound care manual here.

Reading the wound care manual.

Reading the wound care manual.

On the road towards healing.

A family member reads the manual.

Exercises help with recovery.

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