This ritual is second nature. It starts at 2 am Newfoundland time. 32 people get out of bed and tiredly make their way to the airport in the middle of a chilly Fall night. Add to that the fact that they’re giving their vacation time for this. Time away from their families too. Makes me […]
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 […]
Special guest blog by Dr. Nikhil Joshi, currently on the ground in Nepal for Team Broken Earth. I’m hyperventilating. I need At least 10 translators. They need excellent English skills, and then have to be able to speak at least 3 of Nepal’s 40 or so dialects. They have to be available, affordable and willing […]
Special guest blog by Dr. Nikhil Joshi currently on the ground in Nepal for Team Broken Earth. It was April 25th. I had just gotten off the phone with my friends in Nepal. It was hours before the earthquake. I laughed to myself and went to sleep. In the morning I saw that I had […]
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Thanks to all who sent well wishes and thoughts on yesterday’s post. It really does mean a lot to me and re-energizes me in so many ways. Today was better. We visited Dhaka which has approximately 15 million people so it was a dense day, dense in every sense of the word. We travelled throughout […]
Last night was one of those surreal nights here. I’ve heard Haiti often referred to as the “land of a million orphans” but there are moments when the weight of that statement hits you. Late last night, Mary O’Brien, one of our pediatric nurses and Dr. Melissa Angel ended up treating an abandoned orphan. This […]