Below is an e-mail that Karin Feltman’s sister Kim Banning-Bohmann shared with friends and family. Karin sent it Wednesday, her first full day in Haiti. We did a tiny bit of editing to the e-mail to make it easier to read online.

Hi there,

I am back at camp and safe. There was some serious gunfire during the afternoon. The Haiti government was staging a “feeding” where they basically throw bags of rice and beans in the street and make everyone fend for themselves. A small riot broke out, so the security personnel were firing into the air to scare/calm the crowd. It scared them but didn’t calm them much.

We were able to shut down for a few minutes until we deemed it safe. Then we continued to treat patients. We probably saw about 400 patients in all, maybe more like 500.

We delivered and successfully resuscitated a baby. And, I started an IV and gave meds and prayers to a woman they carried in that I swear was less than 30 minutes from death. She was sitting up and smiling when we left.

Well, off to bed. More of the same tomorrow.

Love you! k