Healing Haiti One Bus at a Time
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History

The first three vehicles are in Haiti!


IMMEDS:

In 1996 Dr. Bonnet made his first trip to Haiti. While volunteering with a visiting medical team he observed the condition of the poor and ill in communities around the country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. He has since returned to the country more than twenty times, re-assessing the needs and abilities of the health services system while providing care and building relationships with established medical providers. During this time Dr. Bonnet founded IMMEDS (International Modular Medical Educational Delivery Systems), a not-for-profit think tank which evaluated various technologies and solutions including shipping container medical clinics, solar ovens, green sanitation systems, and sustainable agricultural crops and practices. IMMEDS was a large group of concerned volunteers with a wide range of expertise from engineering to military logistics. A mobile medical clinic built from a shipping container that could be easly moved wherever needed, solar ovens to cut reliance on charcoal to help fight deforestation, green composting sanitation systems (a must in a country with little plumbing), and various electronic devices such as small portable ultrasound devices were all topics investigated.

solar oven
solar cooker
solar oven demonstration 2006
personal solar cooker demonstration 2006
poratable sonogram
portable ultrasound demonstration 2003
shipping container medical clinic
IMMEDS modile medical clinic protoype 2003
mobile medical clinic interior
IMMEDS modile medical clinic interior
Genesis Farm
composting toilet at Genesis Farm 2001