Volunteers return from quake-hit Haiti
January 25, 2010
By Dylan Loh for Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 24 January 2010 1814 hrs
SINGAPORE: Five volunteers of an eight-member CityCare team sent to quake-hit Haiti returned home on Sunday.
The eight members were the first team the social enterprise group sent to Haiti to help the quake survivors.
More helpers will join the rest of the team in Haiti in the coming weeks.
Volunteers described the disaster zone as a big slum, with people sleeping on streets alongside rats and cockroaches.
And the medical facilities there were ill-equipped to treat severely injured people such as a woman they treated, whose upper body had been trapped in the rubble.
Dr Tan Hun Hoe, a CityCare volunteer, said: “To see her face all smashed up and swollen up and, you know, disfigured, with wounds and with maggots crawling out. I think that’s quite a sight that we will never forget and it’s something to, perhaps, remind people how severe the injuries can be.”
- CNA/ir
