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