Medical Teams International - Real.Life.Exhibit - K.J.

Real.Life.Exhibit

We went to Real.Life.Exhibit. It is put on by Medical Teams International. It shows people what it’s like to experience a natural disaster. They have different scenes and all different pictures and movies. They also had a lot of facts. Every 3.6 seconds a child dies from a preventable illness. 1 in 4 people in the world don’t have access to medical care. More than half the world lives on less than two dollars a day. These facts plus more were all around the exhibit. They show all kinds of natural disasters. Floods, tsunami, fire, earthquake, etc. A wave in Sri Lanki was 30 feet high and a wave in Indonesia was 75 to 90 feet high. On January 12, 2010, an 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti and in less than a minute life for many Haitians collapsed. It killed 225,000 people and injured 300,000 people. Over 1 million people live in tent camps. More than 300,000 children were used as soldiers, in the past ten years 2 million child soldiers have died. Half the worlds hospital beds are filled with people suffering from waterborne diseases. These and many facts were shown there at Real.Life.Exhibit. It was pretty sad to see how lots of the world lives. We don’t know what it’s like but Real.Life.Exhibit can help us understand a little more.

Medical Teams International - Real.Life.Exhibit - R.S.

I learned that Americans make 50 percent of garbage.I also learned
tidal waves can go 90 feet high.I feel bad that a child dies every 3.6
seconds.When kids gets burned they are put on make shift beds made
of window screens.More then 30000 kids get kidnapped a year and
become slaves.11 million kids die before the age of 5.Americans
spend 18 million dollars on coffee.There was a wave of sulfur
25 feet high.

Medical Teams International - Real.Life.Exhibit - D.A.

The first thing I learned was that a child dies every 3.6 seconds.It sounds bad but it inspires you to do something about it.I learned that in chili there was a tidal wave that was 25 feet but the air was so polluted that it burnt the skins of people because of sulfur.Children get kidnapped from their homes and are put in camps for war they leave the camp from ages 7-14.

Medical Teams International - Real.Life.Exhibit - R.E.

Every 3.6 seconds, a child dies from a preventable illness. This was one of the first things I learned at the Real.Life.Exhibit. I also got to learn about natural disaster, man made disaster, epidemic disaster, and what Medical Teams International does to help places like Haiti, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and many more. I learned that when disaster strikes, like a tsunami or an earthquake or a breakout of disease, Medical Teams International goes in and helps, whether that means rebuilding houses, shipping in medicines, or trauma counselling. There were a few things in particular that I learned about in the Exhibit that really got to me. One of them was learning about how the LRA takes children and forces them to be soldiers or slaves. These kids were in the age range of 7-13... and they were forced to kill their friends and families. I could never imagine what kind of pain that must be. Another section of the exhibit taught about children “hospitals” with outdated methods of medicine. Small children were tied to beds and left crying in pain, with little medicine to relieve them. Many of them were covered in burns from cooking fires. The last exhibit that really got to me was the one about the tsunami in Indonesia. They had a 25 foot high wall and told about how the waves in Indonesia were over three times high (90 feet tall)! I could never really imagine how tall a tsunami would be until I saw that wall, and I thought how scary it would be to see such a huge wave coming to crush everything. But thankfully, in the end we learned how we can help all these situations, and that there is hope, and that anyone can make a difference.

Medical Teams International - Real.Life.Exhibit - T.S.

I went to Medical Teams International to go to Real.Life exhibit and it really opened my eyes. I had an idea of poverty and what was happening in the world but now i have really seen what is happening and its not a pretty sight, but i very much recommend going and seeing the exhibit. Every 3.6 seconds a child dies from a preventable illness. A man named Matthew Bouthillier was a 36 year E.R Nurse who was working in Haiti part of the Medical Teams International died of cardiac arrest. Bouthillier was warned of the risks but deiced helping was worth it. People like him are trying to make the world a better place i would hope you would try too.

-T.M.S

Medical Teams International - Real.Life.Exhibit - M.Mi.

Every 3.16 seconds a child dies from a preventable disease. I learned that at Medical Teams Internationals Real. Life. Exhibit. The exhibits there really make me think. They shed light on the truth about myths such as ‘when a natural disaster occurs, the victims are not able to think about what to do to save themselves’ when a disaster actually occurs, the victims not only know how to save themselves, they help others. They also showed me what its like in other countries. They showed me what its like to be in a city actually made of trash. They showed me how poor their health care is over there. They showed me what it looks like to be in a tsunami. They showed me the problems people around the world are facing. They told us what we can do to help.

Year's First Field Work

Parents and Community! We have tentatively planned fieldwork for Sept. 20th at Mercy Corps in downtown Portland. We will be receiving an overview on what they do and how they do it. We will also be receiving a training in blogging and how it is used to affect social change.

We will leave the school around 9:15 am and arrive by 10:00. Our workshop will be over at 12:00. We will then have lunch along the waterfront and head back to City View around 1:00.

Spread the word and get involved.

- Mr. Joe