Back home.

Two-thirds of the team - Sara, Pat, Lauri and I - are back home safe in Colorado. Beverly and Anita are still in Petit Trou. The Colorado Haiti Project Medical Team (Sara, Lauri and I are the Trauma Team) may have even passed us on the road near Léogane as we made our way back to Port-au-Prince, and should have arrived in Petit Trou last night. Hopefully the womens' clinic went well today and they can start coming up with some answers.

We'll continue posting on this blog. I know that I speak for others when I say that one of the many motivations for this trip was to bear witness. To that end, between the six of us, we literally took thousands of photos. We'll post selected ones on the blog, and give some context or tell an anecdote, but we also plan on creating a snapfish or flickr or some other online photo-sharing account where we can just post them all in bulk.

In coming back to the US, it was really striking to me that on the cable news channels blaring from TVs in the US airports there was absolutely no mention of Haiti; down the short attention span memory hole went the Earthquake headlines. I am here to say that the crisis in Haiti is as ongoing as the oil leak. It hasn't stopped and it's not OK, and I hope people continue to raise funds and support good groups who are established in Haiti (a good question to ask if you're thinking about donating: 'Were they there BEFORE the earthquake?') and are partnered with organizations that are based in Haiti and run by Haitians.

To wit:
http://www.coloradohaitiproject.org/donate.html

-Mike.