Haiti continues to be a tragic place to attempt to help. I traveled there this relief effort with Project Medishare and assumed that things would have improved since my first trip in late January just after the quake, but to my sad surprise it seemed that things have only continued to be so very hard for the Haitian population and their caregivers.

“I am on the first night shift for all of pediatrics and its filthy and really unpleasant facilities but the children are dying of typhoid, malaria, TB, etc. The sleeping conditions are terrible- yet the families are thus far so amazingly cheerful and smiling..It is 100 degrees by 8 am and it has been so very busy- ambulances were screaming their way in here-a boy hit by a car, another one whose skull was smashed in by a rock, three year olds that weigh 15 pounds, a child who burned his hand off…and the hospital is filled with army cots where mothers lie with their babies with no food, no showers, just little sacks of their few belongings, and they lie there all day taking care of their sick kids cheek to jowl…no movies no stickers let alone toys. The kids break would break your hearts wanting to play, giggling, wandering around trying hard to survive with so very little and so very little hope”.

Moblepediatrics.org is working hard to raise funds for food and medical supplies-trying to get them all well enough to go back to their schools and a hope of a childhood- …Please please don’t forget to give what you can to the many wonderful projects in Haiti and elsewhere. Mobilepediatric.org is partnering with many organizations across the globe to support, honor and cherish children.