Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan 10, 2011 / 23:10 pm
As Haiti continues to cope with the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated its capital Port-au-Prince in January 2010, the Knights of Columbus are expanding their ongoing campaign to provide prosthetic limbs and physical therapy to children injured in the disaster.
The Catholic fraternal and charitable order discussed the continuation of its work with Project Medishare with reporters on Jan. 10, holding an “open house” at the medical charity's facility in Port-au-Prince.
Project Medishare has been working to improve the quality of health care in Haiti for more than 16 years. Its collaboration with the Knights of Columbus focuses on restoring mobility to children whose injuries required the amputation of one or more limbs after the earthquake.
Together, they intend to offer help for all of the estimated 1,000 children who lost an arm or leg in the unprecedented calamity. Approximately 250,000 people died in the earthquake, which also left one million people homeless and reduced much of Port-au-Prince's already frail infrastructure to rubble.