SEIU's first team of volunteers arrived safely in Haiti today. Five registered nurses from Allegheny General Hospital are part of the team. Some of them will be working in Port au Prince at St. Damien's Hospital, Haiti's only free pediatric hospital.
John Ziegler and Cece Peterson flew to Chicago last night and then on to Haiti this morning. Before they boarded their flight to Chicago yesterday, they gave a quick interview with WTAE Channel 4 Action News in Pittsburgh. Watch it here.
Shortly after John and Cece arrived at the airport, Ashley Scott, Danielle Thompson and Tiffany Hamilton got phone calls saying that they too needed to leave that evening and had to be at the airport in less than two hours. They threw the stuff they had packed in their cars and just made it to the airport on time.
We heard from all of them today and they are getting down to work. We hope that we'll get the occasional update from them over the next couple weeks, and will post those here. Cece also started her own blog a couple days before she left, so we'll post some of her entries as well.
Reposted from SEIU Healthcare PA's website here.
The first wave of SEIU health care professionals deployed to Haiti posed for some photos at Miami International Airport yesterday, before boarding their plane headed to Port au Prince:
Send a message of support to SEIU's Haiti volunteers here--we know they will appreciate knowing they are in our thoughts and prayers.
More on SEIU's recent disaster relief efforts here.
