Dr. Allison Furey is one of the original members of Team Broken Earth. Our trip to Haiti, 21 weeks after the earthquake, changed our lives. We left behind two young children (at the time), with a backpack full of DEET, mosquito nets and some Cliff bars, to help during a time of disaster to a nation […]
These last weeks the world has been focused on the Syrian refugee crisis. It always seemed distant. An European problem. Out of our reach. Maybe out of our heads as soon as the news ends. That all changed with one photo. Frightfully simple in pose. Gruesome. Scarring and complicated in content. A rescue worker carrying […]
It’s 3:30 in the AM and I can’t sleep. I thought it was the time change, but I can’t stop thinking about the sites of today. The city is intensely dense. At 20,000 people per square km, there isn’t a lot of room. But the roads and infrastructure are good, and we feel safe. […]
I’ve left Port-au-Prince and arrived in a small village in the Bas Limbé region of northern Haiti. I’m with a Newfoundland-based TBE team that will provide basic medical care in remote villages over the next week. It’s about an eight-hour bus ride, or a 30-minute flight plus 90-minute bumpy beautiful drive to get here from […]
Amazing what a few good hours of sleep will do for you. Was up and at it early today. There’s no shortage of work and this is no vacation. The peds nurses had a rough night loosing a child but with the new day comes new beginnings with an early c-section and the welcomed cry […]