Vic Hinterlang

  • Around Port au Prince, Part One

    Port au Prince today is a crazy patchwork quilt of collapsed buildings, untouched structures and tent camps, sometimes with all three existing side by [...] Full Story

  • Brillant Buder

    Brillant Buder, 23 years old, came to Port au Prince from Cap Haitien on Haiti’s north coast approximately a year and a half ago [...] Full Story

  • Guerrier Carmen and Kerline Jean Louis

    Guerrier Carmen, a member of a Partners in Health Community Rural Mobile Clinic team led by Carmen Maria Romero, a physical therapist from Miami, [...] Full Story

  • Arrival Port au Prince

    Arrived from Fort Lauderdale at 7:30 a.m. local time, which is the same as Austin time. Three quarters of the people on the plane were [...] Full Story

  • Delmas 31 Cockfight

    Brillant was late, which isn’t like him.  Around 3:15, as I was walking to the restaurant, one of the other guys who works at [...] Full Story

  • Hopital St. Louis

    I had tried repeatedly to schedule a meeting with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), winner of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, through its [...] Full Story

  • Mirtho Belle Fleur and Handicap International

    Mirtho Belle Fleur, 21 years old, was receiving physical therapy from Kirsty Luard at Handicap International’s orthopedic center in downtown Port au Prince.  Mirtho [...] Full Story

  • American Refugee Committee at Acra

    American Refugee Committee International (ARC) is dedicated to assisting refugees, displaced people and host communities in taking control of their lives and achieving self [...] Full Story

  • Around Port au Prince, Part Two

    The Acra tent camp is a short walk from Brillant’s house and, unlike the others we visited, truly a city in itself. Coming around [...] Full Story