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