Physicians for Peace

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Photos Roberto Westbrook
Friday, December 8th, 2000 at 3:22 pm

A group of patients outside the Hanger Clinic in Deschapelles, Haiti.

The 15 physical therapists who have volunteered for Physicians for Peace in Haiti this year totaled more than 1,300 patient visits and helped 635 amputee patients. Physicians for Peace is currently fundraising to send additional volunteer therapists to Haiti in 2011. The organization also hopes to establish a distance learning prosthetic and orthotic training and certifications program through Don Bosco University in El Salvador. The program would enroll local Haitian prosthetic technicians in a distance learning program in Creole.

Quotes & patient info collected by Roberto Westbrook during a PFP mission in October 2010.

More information on Physicians for Peace can be found at: www.physiciansforpeace.org and

http://www.physiciansforpeace.org/haiti.html and on Facebook, www.facebook.com/PhysiciansforPeace

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ABOUT THE WRITER
Roberto Westbrook has a degree in Finance from the University of Virginia, but it lost most of it's value when he chose to pursue photojournalism at the University of Florida. Before settling in Norfolk with his wife, he worked as a photographer in Washington DC and then Buenos Aires, Argentina. Roberto has been published in National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Time magazine, The New York Times and others. His work can be found at robertowestbrook.com
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