Canadian Medical Assistance Teams executive director and RN Valerie Rzepka shares some smiles with a young patient she helped in Leogane, Haiti.
Saturday, May 8, 2010 – Toronto Star Nursing Week 2010 Feature
Toronto Star: Helping Haiti heal and rebuild
Toronto Star : Out of the Factory into the heat.
CMAT Team 8 in front of the J/P HRO Medical Centre..
TORONTO, May 4, 2010 – Canadian Medical Assistance Teams’ eighth team of medical volunteers departed Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport Tuesday morning and arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti early Tuesday afternoon. CMAT continues to provide medical assistance in the quake-ravaged region, and has established an ongoing partnership to provide medical volunteers to staff the JP HRO (Jenkins/Penn Haiti Relief Organization)’s medical centre located at The
Pétionville Club. Over the coming weeks CMAT expects to rotate additional medical teams in and out of the area.
In this photo: Top Row L-R: Yasmeen Jabbar, Marcie Harrison, Nathan Kelly. Bottom Row, L-R, Dr. Joanne Perry, Christina Coambs, Robin Parfitt, Melissa Glen, Dorothy McEachern, Ruby Dyall. Front: Imran Jabbar.
TORONTO, April 20, 2010 – Canadian Medical Assistance Teams’ seventh team of medical volunteers departed Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport Tuesday morning and arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti early Tuesday afternoon. CMAT continues to provide medical assistance in the quake-ravaged region, and has established an ongoing partnership to provide medical volunteers to staff the JP HRO (Jenkins/Penn Haiti Relief Organization)’s medical centre located at The Pétionville Club.
CMAT Teams 4 and 5 at the J/P HRO Medical Centre in March 2010. L-R (Bottom Row) Sandy Scott, Catriona Convey, Jean-Evens Cheridor, Janice Stirling, Shandra Doran, Dawn Anderson, Guinevere Rolls Dorward, Huguette Ray. L-R (Top Row) Rashad Chin, John Rich, Mark Hyslop, Sharon Morgan, Nathan Blackstock, Skye Nicolson, Bill Coltart, Justin Law.
TORONTO, April 6, 2010 – Canadian Medical Assistance Teams (CMAT) successfully handed over responsibility for the delivery of health care back to authorities in Léogâne, and have transitioned CMAT services to the town of Pétionville, outside Port au Prince. Teams 4 and 5 completed this transition, and CMAT operations have now concluded in Léogâne.
Mr. Jeewan Chanicka, teacher at Donald Cousens Primary School, and Director of the Helping Hands program from York Region District School board presents CMAT Executive Director Valerie Rzepka with a cheque for $55,000 on March 10, 2010.
Friday, March 12, 2010 – Markham, Ontario – The Helping Hands Haiti Relief project ran from January 13th – Feb 12th 2010. What initially began as a school project at Donald Cousens Public School in Markham, Ontario was expanded to include other schools in the York Region district school board after Jeewan Chanicka, Director of CMAT’s Helping Hands campaign sent a message out to the system encouraging schools to do what they could. It eventually grew to include 31 schools.
Day 15 of Clinical Ops... CMAT continues delivering emergency care to families impacted by Hurricane Melissa — thanks to incredible community support, we’ve now raised $17k of our $50k goal. ❤️
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$14K raised — $36K to go.
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Hurricane Melissa left thousands without access to medical care.
Today, on Day 1, CMAT’s mobile clinic is treating the injured, the sick & the displaced.
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