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Disabled Workers Help Haitians Who Lost Limbs in 2010 Quake

Associated Press

   PORT-AU-PRINCE - Wilfrid Macena was a welder who built gas station
   tanks for a living when the devastating 2010 earthquake toppled a wall
   at the garage where he worked and crushed his right leg.

   He was unable to reach a hospital for seven days and his knee became
   infected, forcing doctors to amputate most of his leg. Several weeks
   later, he came to an institution run by Haiti's Episcopal Church in
   downtown Port-au-Prince where a small group of disabled workers were
   fitting victims with prosthetics and received his first artificial leg.
   "It's like I got a brand new life,'' he recalled, adding that one of
   the workers at St. Vincent's Center convinced him to join their team,
   assuring him that it was similar to welding.
   In July 2010, six months after the earthquake, he built his first
   prosthetic-- a job that took him three days.

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