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Helping the Neighbors
Thursday, January 21 2010
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Helping the neighbors
Many people in Haiti are still without food, water, shelter and medical care as foreign aid makes its way in. In the meantime, many Haitians are doing what they can to help one another.
Christian Surena is a Haitian who was studying in Miami when the earthquake hit. He found out his parents had set up a makeshift clinic and shelter in their home, the only one left standing in the neighborhood. So Christian went down to help. He talks with Dick Gordon as he makes his way across Port au Prince from an unsuccessful trip to the airport, about the challenges of helping people when supplies are hard to get and the need is so great. Christian is also a music producer and one of the people behind the song Tribute to Haiti.
Laura Wagner (left) with friends Marlene and Acephie, 2 days before the earthquake
Laura Wagner was in Haiti during the earthquake. She was trapped in a collapsed doorway and rescued by a local handyman. She ended up in a UN shelter, where she cared for a boy without any family and was, at one time, asked to make tags for unidentified bodies. As she tells Dick, what most frustrates her now that she's back in the U.S., is how Haiti is being portrayed in the media.
Lew Zirkle is an orthopedic surgeon who is now in Haiti. He's invented a way to repair broken limbs without the use of an x-ray or even electricity. Lew talks with Dick about how he came up with the idea and why it's important to him to continue to do his work around the world. A longer version of this story aired on November 29, 2007.
Hard Hits
Wednesday, January 20 2010
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Hard Hits
Scot Brantley (Photo: GatorCountry.com)
While a handful of NFL teams are still in the hunt to get to the Super Bowl, most players are now resting or nursing injuries they sustained over the long, hard season. And this year, perhaps more than ever, the NFL, and even Congress, have been taking a closer look at the impact of those hard hits that can cause brain injury to players.
Scot Brantley knows all about concussions. The fierce former linebacker took a hit his senior year at Florida that bruised his brain and almost ended his career. After eight seasons in the NFL and almost a dozen surgeries, 51-year-old Scot suffered two strokes that he believes are the result of the hits he delivered. Scot talks with Dick Gordon about his story and the changes he hopes to see implemented in football.
More Stories from Haiti
We continue our coverage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti.
Dr. Herby Derenoncourt grew up in Haiti. He is now working with Catholic Relief Services to doctor to the thousands who are desperately in need of help. Dr. Derenoncourt tells Dick about the efforts to reopen one hospital.
Pastor Michelet Sainte Leste's church was filled with parishioners at the time of the quake. It collapsed. The pastor tells Dick about what has been happening since the quake. Pastor Sainte Leste's colleague Kent Annan of Haiti Partners is also featured.
Maggie Boyer is a Haitian woman who is communication director for World Vision. Dick spoke with Maggie on the first day after the quake. Today she tells about visiting a collapsed hospital.
Safe Spaces for Children in Haiti
Tuesday, January 19 2010
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SAFE SPACES FOR CHILDREN IN HAITI
Margarett Lubin is a Haitian who works with the organization Save The Children. She was at work in Port au Prince when the quake hit. Her house was damaged, and she is sleeping in her car, but she’s still been coming in regularly to her job. She is responsible for creating special places for the children who’ve been left homeless or alone since the earthquake. It means she has to arrange social workers and other support. Margarett joins Dick Gordon to talk about her life and work since the quake.
- Find out more about Margarett's organization
- Read Save the Children's blog from Haiti
Adventures with Dad
Many of the best stories you've sent in over the years are "coming of age" stories - either the ones when you are actually coming of age, or those times when someone in your life decides that its time for you to go through such a ritual. Brad Stoller wrote in to say "The short (version) of the story is my father taking me - at age 12 on a road trip in the mountains of the Big Sur in California" to have an adventure. As Brad tells Dick, he and his father did have an adventure, even if it did seem a bit self-imposed. It involved a lack of planning, food, water, getting lost, and sleeping in temperatures close to freezing, but it's a memory that also contains an unexplained bit of magic.
The Rescue Effort
Monday, January 18 2010
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The Rescue effort
Today on The Story we're talking with people who were caught up in Haiti's earthquake, and with the people who have been helping.
Top to bottom: Chris and Leslie Rolling, Tony Redmond, Leann Chong
Chris Rolling and his wife, Leslie, head up a nonprofit in Haiti dedicated to providing sustainable solutions to the water crisis there. Chris was near a school when the earthquake struck. He talks with Dick Gordon about the students he was able to pull from the rubble, and the one young girl he couldn't save.
Dr. Tony Redmond is an emergency physician on his way to Haiti. He's been in devastated areas before, from the earthquake-affected areas in China to the war zone in Sarejevo. He tells Dick that despite all the medical expertise he brings, sometimes the most important thing he can do for people in need is to just show up.
Leann Chong had just taken a shower and sat down to write when last week's earthquake hit Port au Prince. She fell through the collapsing floors of Hotel Montana and remained trapped under the rubble for the next 17 hours. She was face down in a kind of fetal position. Leann says she prayed, breathed and kept herself awake until rescuers finally heard her cries. She speaks with Dick from her hospital bed in the Dominican Republic.
And one last story: Kent Annan has spent much of the last 7 years in Haiti. He was there about 5 years ago when hurricanes created massive flooding and mudslides. He tells Dick about the one memory he has of that time that gives him hope now.
- Learn more about Chris and Clean Water for Haiti
- Learn more about Leann's organization, Food for the Poor
- Learn about Kent's organization, Haiti Partners
Help and Hope for Haiti
Friday, January 15 2010
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Help and hope for Haiti
Mecca aka Grimo
Today we continue our coverage of the earthquake's aftermath by talking with people on the ground in Haiti, artists and restaurateurs organizing relief efforts, and those who are still trying desperately to connect with their families.Â
Miriam Castaneda of the Canadian Red Cross was in Haiti when the earthquake struck. She tells Dick Gordon, via satellite phone, about what she saw that day, and the pressures the survivors face now.
Mecca aka Grimo is a poet based in Miami. He says since the earthquake hit on Tuesday he's been moving non-stop, using events and social networking to help unite Haitian-Americans.
Katherine "Kay Kay" Kean and Gary Sanon-Jules of Tap Tap (photos: Kenny Malone)
Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant in Miami has become a gathering space for the Haitian community. General manager Gary Sanon-Jules and owner Katherine Kean describe how people are gathering together there now during this time of crisis.
Fabienne Colas got through to her father in Haiti within hours of the earthquake. She tells Dick how lucky she felt to hear her father's voice, and how frustrating it is to her that just as things in Haiti were starting to look up, catastrophe struck.
Marvin Chery doesn't know if his father survived the quake. So he set up a website for himself and thousands of others to post information about missing family members. Working on the website, Marvin says, is keeping him occupied while he waits anxiously for word on his father.
- Follow Mecca aka Grimo's efforts on Facebook, Twitter, and myspace
- Learn more about Marvin's website
Music in this story: Paradi and Haiti performed by Mecca aka Grimo; Jou a Rive ("The Day Will Come") performed by by Boukan Ginen; Yele performed by Wyclef Jean for the album Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival; Banm Youn Ti Limye performed by Manno Charlemagne for the album Les Inedits de Manno Charlemagne.
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