notes: 2010 Haiti Earthquake - MMDR has returned to Haiti three times since the quake, each time partnering with organizations such as Healing Hands International and Hope Through Healing Hands to provide much needed treatment, medications, and vaccinations, including $50,000 of Tetanus Vaccine. ======== What we do: Currently, we provide medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that we have built and money to build further medical projects. As frequently as possible, we take medical expeditions to the sites that we support offering first hand medical assistance and providing the muscle needed to accomplish our projects. We also create and run micro-economic packages to help support the local communities. What we need: We need more funding. We need to be able to purchase more medical equipment so that we may provide for the different clinics and hospitals. We need to expand and organize ourselves, to move beyond the vision of a single doctor and become an organization capable of impacting a wider field of people. ------------- VOLUNTEER - Want to be a part of future volunteer efforts with MMDR? https://mmdr.wufoo.com/forms/disaster-response-team-signup/ (asks for passport information) ==== TWITTER - @mmdrelief FACEBOOK - (from website) http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Mobile-Medical-Disaster-Relief/19856390207?ref=ts (from Yahoo search) http://www.facebook.com/mmdrelief BLOG - http://www.mmdr.org/blog ==== Publicity - http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20358101,00.html A FAMILY'S MISSION: CARE FOR THE SICK THE VANDERPOOLS: DAVID, LAURIE, DAVID JR., JOHN MARK AND JACKLYN Brigitte Emmanuel saw the woman in the tent near hers fall ill and die from a mysterious illness and prayed her daughters Ayala, 9, and NaTisha, 7, would survive. Brigitte, 29, and her girls were among thousands of families whose homes were destroyed in the Jan. 12 quake and who were now living in temporary settlements with no running water, human waste everywhere and mosquitoes filling the air. Last month Brigitte learned an American medical team was providing free care in a former church. Watching Ayala and NaTisha cry as they got tetanus and diptheria vaccines, Brigitte felt her own tears-of relief-flow. "They are saving the lives of my children," she told a vistor. "They are angels." The leaders of that life-saving team: a single family. David Vanderpool, 50-a vascular surgeon from Brentwood, Tenn.-his wife, Laurie, 51, and their three children (David Jr., 22, John Mark, 18, and Jacklyn, 16) don't take beach vacations. Instead they run temporary medical clinics in war-torn and impoverished countries like Iraq, Honduras and South Africa. These days their mission is Haiti. "We go to places that need our help," Dr. Vanderpool says of their recent 10-day stint, when they saw 2,000 patients. "Haiti is the place where we can really be helpful now." It all started with Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Dr. Vanderpool was getting ready to volunteer in New Orleans when David Jr. asked why victims didn't evacuate. "I realized," Dr. Vanderpool says with characteristic intensity, "he had no idea what it was like to be so poor you can't afford to leave. So I said, 'Pack your bags.'" Shortly afterward, Dr. Vanderpool founded the nonprofit Mobile Medical Disaster Relief, which raises funds through grants and donations and has provided care to some 50,000 people. This recent trip to Haiti was Dr. Vanderpool's second. He first arrived with his sons just two days after the quake. Working in a clinic on the border town of Jimani, Dominican Republic, Dr. Vanderpool performed emergency amputations-sometimes without anesthesia-while his sons whispered comforting words to patients in unfathomable pain. This time the focus was preventive care: Dr. Vanderpool did some surgeries but also checked wounds, treated infections and looked for signs of tetanus. Laurie, an accountant, administered first aid. The boys, supervised by their dad, gave vaccines; Jacklyn staffed the pharmacy, dispensing medications and lollipops. "I love doing this," says David Jr., a senior at Abilene Christian University. "You help someone-the results are immediate." So was the gratitude as the family accepted hugs from emotional patients-none more so than Brigitte, who clasped David Jr.'s hand as she softly and repeatedly said, "Thank you." But the Vanderpools say they gain more than they give. "We bond as a family through this work," Jacklyn says. "I see my parents save lives and know I helped. That's what it's all about." • MMDR.ORG -> 2010 Haiti Earthquake - MMDR has returned to Haiti three times since the quake, each time partnering with organizations such as Healing Hands International and Hope Through Healing Hands to provide much needed treatment, medications, and vaccinations, including $50,000 of Tetanus Vaccine. ======== What we do: Currently, we provide medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that we have built and money to build further medical projects. As frequently as possible, we take medical expeditions to the sites that we support offering first hand medical assistance and providing the muscle needed to accomplish our projects. We also create and run micro-economic packages to help support the local communities. What we need: We need more funding. We need to be able to purchase more medical equipment so that we may provide for the different clinics and hospitals. We need to expand and organize ourselves, to move beyond the vision of a single doctor and become an organization capable of impacting a wider field of people. ------------- VOLUNTEER - Want to be a part of future volunteer efforts with MMDR? https://mmdr.wufoo.com/forms/disaster-response-team-signup/ (asks for passport information) ==== TWITTER - @mmdrelief FACEBOOK - (from website) http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Mobile-Medical-Disaster-Relief/19856390207?ref=ts (from Yahoo search) http://www.facebook.com/mmdrelief BLOG - http://www.mmdr.org/blog ==== Publicity - http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20358101,00.html A FAMILY'S MISSION: CARE FOR THE SICK THE VANDERPOOLS: DAVID, LAURIE, DAVID JR., JOHN MARK AND JACKLYN Brigitte Emmanuel saw the woman in the tent near hers fall ill and die from a mysterious illness and prayed her daughters Ayala, 9, and NaTisha, 7, would survive. Brigitte, 29, and her girls were among thousands of families whose homes were destroyed in the Jan. 12 quake and who were now living in temporary settlements with no running water, human waste everywhere and mosquitoes filling the air. Last month Brigitte learned an American medical team was providing free care in a former church. Watching Ayala and NaTisha cry as they got tetanus and diptheria vaccines, Brigitte felt her own tears-of relief-flow. "They are saving the lives of my children," she told a vistor. "They are angels." The leaders of that life-saving team: a single family. David Vanderpool, 50-a vascular surgeon from Brentwood, Tenn.-his wife, Laurie, 51, and their three children (David Jr., 22, John Mark, 18, and Jacklyn, 16) don't take beach vacations. Instead they run temporary medical clinics in war-torn and impoverished countries like Iraq, Honduras and South Africa. These days their mission is Haiti. "We go to places that need our help," Dr. Vanderpool says of their recent 10-day stint, when they saw 2,000 patients. "Haiti is the place where we can really be helpful now." It all started with Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Dr. Vanderpool was getting ready to volunteer in New Orleans when David Jr. asked why victims didn't evacuate. "I realized," Dr. Vanderpool says with characteristic intensity, "he had no idea what it was like to be so poor you can't afford to leave. So I said, 'Pack your bags.'" Shortly afterward, Dr. Vanderpool founded the nonprofit Mobile Medical Disaster Relief, which raises funds through grants and donations and has provided care to some 50,000 people. This recent trip to Haiti was Dr. Vanderpool's second. He first arrived with his sons just two days after the quake. Working in a clinic on the border town of Jimani, Dominican Republic, Dr. Vanderpool performed emergency amputations-sometimes without anesthesia-while his sons whispered comforting words to patients in unfathomable pain. This time the focus was preventive care: Dr. Vanderpool did some surgeries but also checked wounds, treated infections and looked for signs of tetanus. Laurie, an accountant, administered first aid. The boys, supervised by their dad, gave vaccines; Jacklyn staffed the pharmacy, dispensing medications and lollipops. "I love doing this," says David Jr., a senior at Abilene Christian University. "You help someone-the results are immediate." So was the gratitude as the family accepted hugs from emotional patients-none more so than Brigitte, who clasped David Jr.'s hand as she softly and repeatedly said, "Thank you." But the Vanderpools say they gain more than they give. "We bond as a family through this work," Jacklyn says. "I see my parents save lives and know I helped. That's what it's all about." • MMDR.ORG -- Parters - GHI and MGM have partnerned with Mobile Medical Disaster Relief (MMDR) http://www.globalhealthinnovations.org http://mgm.mannadr.org

town: -> Port au Prince

notes: 2010 Haiti Earthquake - MMDR has returned to Haiti three times since the quake, each time partnering with organizations such as Healing Hands International and Hope Through Healing Hands to provide much needed treatment, medications, and vaccinations, including $50,000 of Tetanus Vaccine. ======== What we do: Currently, we provide medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that we have built and money to build further medical projects. As frequently as possible, we take medical expeditions to the sites that we support offering first hand medical assistance and providing the muscle needed to accomplish our projects. We also create and run micro-economic packages to help support the local communities. What we need: We need more funding. We need to be able to purchase more medical equipment so that we may provide for the different clinics and hospitals. We need to expand and organize ourselves, to move beyond the vision of a single doctor and become an organization capable of impacting a wider field of people. ------------- VOLUNTEER - Want to be a part of future volunteer efforts with MMDR? https://mmdr.wufoo.com/forms/disaster-response-team-signup/ (asks for passport information) ==== TWITTER - @mmdrelief FACEBOOK - (from website) http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Mobile-Medical-Disaster-Relief/19856390207?ref=ts (from Yahoo search) http://www.facebook.com/mmdrelief BLOG - http://www.mmdr.org/blog -> 2010 Haiti Earthquake - MMDR has returned to Haiti three times since the quake, each time partnering with organizations such as Healing Hands International and Hope Through Healing Hands to provide much needed treatment, medications, and vaccinations, including $50,000 of Tetanus Vaccine. ======== What we do: Currently, we provide medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that we have built and money to build further medical projects. As frequently as possible, we take medical expeditions to the sites that we support offering first hand medical assistance and providing the muscle needed to accomplish our projects. We also create and run micro-economic packages to help support the local communities. What we need: We need more funding. We need to be able to purchase more medical equipment so that we may provide for the different clinics and hospitals. We need to expand and organize ourselves, to move beyond the vision of a single doctor and become an organization capable of impacting a wider field of people. ------------- VOLUNTEER - Want to be a part of future volunteer efforts with MMDR? https://mmdr.wufoo.com/forms/disaster-response-team-signup/ (asks for passport information) ==== TWITTER - @mmdrelief FACEBOOK - (from website) http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Mobile-Medical-Disaster-Relief/19856390207?ref=ts (from Yahoo search) http://www.facebook.com/mmdrelief BLOG - http://www.mmdr.org/blog ==== Publicity - http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20358101,00.html A FAMILY'S MISSION: CARE FOR THE SICK THE VANDERPOOLS: DAVID, LAURIE, DAVID JR., JOHN MARK AND JACKLYN Brigitte Emmanuel saw the woman in the tent near hers fall ill and die from a mysterious illness and prayed her daughters Ayala, 9, and NaTisha, 7, would survive. Brigitte, 29, and her girls were among thousands of families whose homes were destroyed in the Jan. 12 quake and who were now living in temporary settlements with no running water, human waste everywhere and mosquitoes filling the air. Last month Brigitte learned an American medical team was providing free care in a former church. Watching Ayala and NaTisha cry as they got tetanus and diptheria vaccines, Brigitte felt her own tears-of relief-flow. "They are saving the lives of my children," she told a vistor. "They are angels." The leaders of that life-saving team: a single family. David Vanderpool, 50-a vascular surgeon from Brentwood, Tenn.-his wife, Laurie, 51, and their three children (David Jr., 22, John Mark, 18, and Jacklyn, 16) don't take beach vacations. Instead they run temporary medical clinics in war-torn and impoverished countries like Iraq, Honduras and South Africa. These days their mission is Haiti. "We go to places that need our help," Dr. Vanderpool says of their recent 10-day stint, when they saw 2,000 patients. "Haiti is the place where we can really be helpful now." It all started with Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Dr. Vanderpool was getting ready to volunteer in New Orleans when David Jr. asked why victims didn't evacuate. "I realized," Dr. Vanderpool says with characteristic intensity, "he had no idea what it was like to be so poor you can't afford to leave. So I said, 'Pack your bags.'" Shortly afterward, Dr. Vanderpool founded the nonprofit Mobile Medical Disaster Relief, which raises funds through grants and donations and has provided care to some 50,000 people. This recent trip to Haiti was Dr. Vanderpool's second. He first arrived with his sons just two days after the quake. Working in a clinic on the border town of Jimani, Dominican Republic, Dr. Vanderpool performed emergency amputations-sometimes without anesthesia-while his sons whispered comforting words to patients in unfathomable pain. This time the focus was preventive care: Dr. Vanderpool did some surgeries but also checked wounds, treated infections and looked for signs of tetanus. Laurie, an accountant, administered first aid. The boys, supervised by their dad, gave vaccines; Jacklyn staffed the pharmacy, dispensing medications and lollipops. "I love doing this," says David Jr., a senior at Abilene Christian University. "You help someone-the results are immediate." So was the gratitude as the family accepted hugs from emotional patients-none more so than Brigitte, who clasped David Jr.'s hand as she softly and repeatedly said, "Thank you." But the Vanderpools say they gain more than they give. "We bond as a family through this work," Jacklyn says. "I see my parents save lives and know I helped. That's what it's all about." • MMDR.ORG

notes: 2010 Haiti Earthquake - MMDR has returned to Haiti three times since the quake, each time partnering with organizations such as Healing Hands International and Hope Through Healing Hands to provide much needed treatment, medications, and vaccinations, including $50,000 of Tetanus Vaccine. ======== What we do: Currently, we provide medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that we have built and money to build further medical projects. As frequently as possible, we take medical expeditions to the sites that we support offering first hand medical assistance and providing the muscle needed to accomplish our projects. We also create and run micro-economic packages to help support the local communities. What we need: We need more funding. We need to be able to purchase more medical equipment so that we may provide for the different clinics and hospitals. We need to expand and organize ourselves, to move beyond the vision of a single doctor and become an organization capable of impacting a wider field of people. ------------- VOLUNTEER - Want to be a part of future volunteer efforts with MMDR? https://mmdr.wufoo.com/forms/disaster-response-team-signup/ (asks for passport information) ==== TWITTER - @mmdrelief FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Mobile-Medical-Disaster-Relief/19856390207?ref=ts http://www.facebook.com/mmdrelief BLOG - http://www.mmdr.org/blog -> 2010 Haiti Earthquake - MMDR has returned to Haiti three times since the quake, each time partnering with organizations such as Healing Hands International and Hope Through Healing Hands to provide much needed treatment, medications, and vaccinations, including $50,000 of Tetanus Vaccine. ======== What we do: Currently, we provide medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that we have built and money to build further medical projects. As frequently as possible, we take medical expeditions to the sites that we support offering first hand medical assistance and providing the muscle needed to accomplish our projects. We also create and run micro-economic packages to help support the local communities. What we need: We need more funding. We need to be able to purchase more medical equipment so that we may provide for the different clinics and hospitals. We need to expand and organize ourselves, to move beyond the vision of a single doctor and become an organization capable of impacting a wider field of people. ------------- VOLUNTEER - Want to be a part of future volunteer efforts with MMDR? https://mmdr.wufoo.com/forms/disaster-response-team-signup/ (asks for passport information) ==== TWITTER - @mmdrelief FACEBOOK - (from website) http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Mobile-Medical-Disaster-Relief/19856390207?ref=ts (from Yahoo search) http://www.facebook.com/mmdrelief BLOG - http://www.mmdr.org/blog

notes: 2010 Haiti Earthquake - MMDR has returned to Haiti three times since the quake, each time partnering with organizations such as Healing Hands International and Hope Through Healing Hands to provide much needed treatment, medications, and vaccinations, including $50,000 of Tetanus Vaccine. ======== What we do: Currently, we provide medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that we have built and money to build further medical projects. As frequently as possible, we take medical expeditions to the sites that we support offering first hand medical assistance and providing the muscle needed to accomplish our projects. We also create and run micro-economic packages to help support the local communities. What we need: We need more funding. We need to be able to purchase more medical equipment so that we may provide for the different clinics and hospitals. We need to expand and organize ourselves, to move beyond the vision of a single doctor and become an organization capable of impacting a wider field of people. ------------- VOLUNTEER - Want to be a part of future volunteer efforts with MMDR? https://mmdr.wufoo.com/forms/disaster-response-team-signup/ (asks for passport information) ==== TWITTER - @mmdrelief FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Mobile-Medical-Disaster-Relief/19856390207?ref=ts BLOG - http://www.mmdr.org/blog -> 2010 Haiti Earthquake - MMDR has returned to Haiti three times since the quake, each time partnering with organizations such as Healing Hands International and Hope Through Healing Hands to provide much needed treatment, medications, and vaccinations, including $50,000 of Tetanus Vaccine. ======== What we do: Currently, we provide medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that we have built and money to build further medical projects. As frequently as possible, we take medical expeditions to the sites that we support offering first hand medical assistance and providing the muscle needed to accomplish our projects. We also create and run micro-economic packages to help support the local communities. What we need: We need more funding. We need to be able to purchase more medical equipment so that we may provide for the different clinics and hospitals. We need to expand and organize ourselves, to move beyond the vision of a single doctor and become an organization capable of impacting a wider field of people. ------------- VOLUNTEER - Want to be a part of future volunteer efforts with MMDR? https://mmdr.wufoo.com/forms/disaster-response-team-signup/ (asks for passport information) ==== TWITTER - @mmdrelief FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Mobile-Medical-Disaster-Relief/19856390207?ref=ts http://www.facebook.com/mmdrelief BLOG - http://www.mmdr.org/blog