HAITI Road and Airstrip Construction - Updated February 2012
RAM's progress toward providing free air ambulance service for the people of Medor is slow. Our efforts to secure the proper permissions from Haitian flight operations officials, the National Airport Authority, and various Cabinet Ministries are ongoing. In spite of slow progress, we are committed to establishing a free air ambulance program and youth development presence in Haiti.
VOLUNTEER PILOTS
NEEDED
for FREE AIR AMBULANCE OPERATIONS
in HAITI Please follow RAM on Twitter for updates!
RAM is interviewing PILOTS for VOLUNTEER SERVICE in Haiti.
This position is
without salary & service duration is three to six months.
Location is in
an isolated mountain community.
Basic housing is provided. Preference will
be given to pilot/mechanics.
Couples who meet minimum requirements
&
can volunteer together are a plus!
Minimum experience level:
1,000 hours total time,
with instrument rating
and
tail wheel experience on short fields.
If you are interested in this opportunity, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT OUR WARNING! , then complete and send us an APPLICATION**, which can be e-mailed (laurak@ramusa.org, subject line: HAITI PILOT), faxed (865.609.1876), or mailed to RAM Headquarters.
*Remote Area Medical® cannot be held responsible for mechanical glitches, local political circumstances, and/or inclement weather that lead to the cancellation or postponement of any expedition.
**On your application, please indicate HAITI PILOT as the Expedition you plan to attend!
SUMMARY OF DECEMBER 2010 and JANUARY 2011 EXPEDITIONS
In January 2011, a small RAM team returned to Haiti to test the airstrip built a month before in the mountain community of Medor. Two landings, rough, short, but successful, were recorded by an NBC film crew for an NBCDateline episode which aired January 9, 2011.
The creation and repair of roads and an airstrip in Medor that were completed in December 2010 and tested in January 2011 will allow for an air ambulance program, which will make possible the efficient delivery of medical teams as well as emergency patient evacuation.
