By Marilyn Peguero, NBC17, 4 days, 11 hours ago He's part of a non-profit group called Amurt, which runs a school in Port-au-Prince and two other schools outside Haiti's capital. The school in Port-au-Prince was not seriously damaged and is now a staging ground for helping earthquake victims. Landau and other volunteers also set up a clinic at a tent city nearby with the help of some of the people living there. "Every field, every open space was occupied by 100 or 500 ramshackle tents," Landau said. He treated more than one hundred people in just a few days. "What is really neat is that the people have been so cooperative with us and so friendly and so warm and so welcoming. Not a hint of violence in anything that we were doing," he said. Despite massive international efforts from governments and more than 100 non-profits, some Haitians still don't have enough food, water, or medical care. But Landau says Haitians are organizing to help each other. "You know, you have three relatives die and you do some mourning. But then life goes on and you either live or you don't," he said. What he saw during his week in Haiti gives him hope about Haiti's future. "This disaster is not the end of Haiti but rather the beginning," he said. Amurt plans to send more doctors and nurses to the tent cities in Port-au-Prince and outlying areas. Volunteers also plan to restart classes at the school in Port-au-Prince in a few weeks. |
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