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Responding to the Earthquake in HaitiKey Elements and Issues in AT Reuse
as a Component in Emergency Management
Chris Brand, FODAC
National Summit on Emergency Management
and Assistive Technology Reutilization
February 23-24, 2010
Photos of AT Assistance from Portlight Strategies and FODAC
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Trucks picked up donations across Metro Atlanta and throughout the state.
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Donated items were checked and sanitized for immediate use.
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Volunteers packed and shrink-wrapped large boxes of devices.
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Hundreds of crutches and walkers were boxed for shipment.
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Packing and skidding in the FODAC warehouse.
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Containers were labeled with contents for ease of distribution in Haiti.
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Fifteen manual hospital beds went with the first shipment.
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Volunteers from Portlight, FODAC’s on-the-ground partner in Haiti.
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Donations from Georgia arrive at a camp in Haiti
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Portlight arranged vehicles to deliver equipment.
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Hospital beds arrive at a destination clinic on top of a van.
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Volunteer organizations worked together. This one “shopped” for what she needed from the supplies and equipment.
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Equipment and supplies inside the clinic
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Donated AT gets a new user
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Donated equipment and supplies in use in a tented treatment area
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Chris BrandFriends of Disabled Adults and Children, Too
Stone Mountain, Georgia