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This is Part Three in a series of blog posts by Maria Bello, who is traveling with Artists For Peace And Justice in Haiti. Read Part One and Part Two of the series now.
Posted: January 26, 2010 04:23 PM
It’s almost impossible to explain what I have witnessed over the last week in Haiti. How to relay the depth of sorrow and devastation of the Haitian people and acknowledge the sheer beauty of a community coming together to help their fellow man?
Three days ago, at St. Damien’s hospital, I held the hand of a 16-year-old boy as his leg was amputated with nothing more than local anesthesia. His screams of despair, I believe, were not only from the physical pain but from the knowledge that his life as he has known it would never be the same. Haiti was a hard place to survive before the earthquake. Now, with one leg, perhaps impossible. And there are thousands of men, women and children just like him. Missing arms, legs, paralyzed from spinal cord injuries, brain injuries… and the list goes on.
How will these people survive?
That night, sleeping on the ground under the Haitian moon with hundreds of doctors, nurses, soldiers and volunteers at the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division camp, we were awakened by what sounded like the song of angels. It was quiet at first, like one mother’s mournful prayer in Creole for a lost child. And then her voice was joined by another and another and another, until the song they were singing turned into a choir of grieving voices.
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This is the second post in Maria Bello’s continuing series from Haiti. Read Part I of the series now.
Posted: January 22, 2010 03:44 PM
St. Damien’s is the calm in the midst of a storm. Arriving here yesterday with Sean and Diana’s team of incredible doctors, we were surprised at the lack of chaos and the efficiency of many volunteers and aid groups working together. The teams of doctors who have been embedded here for the last week were more than relieved to see a new set of faces so they could finally get some sleep. Many of the teams here were immediately deployed by Partners in Health the day the earthquake hit.
Partners in Health, founded by the brilliant Paul Farmer, has been working on the ground in Haiti for 20 years. They bring modern medical support to poor communities in the countryside and manage free community health clinics all over the country.
Lack of medication is still a huge problem here. In the childrens’ ward yesterday a six year old girl with a newly amputated arm was being treated for pain with nothing more than Tylenol. Dr. Delatre Lolo, a Haitian doctor now living in the States is a team member of JP Haiti relief organization. He told me this morning after working through the night, “we are seeing mostly amputations and it is very sad because most of them could have been avoided with quicker response and medication.”
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The acrid smell of death is not the first thing that hits you landing in Port-au-Prince. It is the screams and wails of mourning that are overwhelming. The cries of mothers, fathers, neighbors and friends who have lost so much and so many in the last week. The Haitian people whom I have come to know over the last year are a strong, compassionate, resilient bunch who mourn with the same passion they live by.
Paul Haggis and I landed this morning with a team from the JP Haiti Relief Organization, a private foundation created by Sean Penn and Diana Jenkins to help in the rescue efforts. They have gathered 10 doctors, nurses and surgeons, a water specialist, logistics people and two cargo planes filled with medical supplies, food, tools, thousands of water filters and generators to help existing institutions and set up a clinic that will service those in need. They are generously supplying our group, Artists for Peace and Justice, with medicine we desperately need to get into the hands of our friends at St. Damien’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince. For the last 48 hours, operations have been performed without anesthesia, children are dying from dehydration and simple wounds have become so infected that many require amputation.
We have been called here by our dear friend, Father Rick Frechette. A doctor and priest in Haiti for the last 22 years, Rick defines the power of one man’s call to action. He and his Haitian colleagues have built and run the only free pediatric hospital in Haiti, the only hospital for disabled children, two orphanages, 20 street schools, free medical clinics in the poorest slums of the city, Cite de Soleil and most recently, New York City, a job training center that includes a bakery and shoe factory. He supplies the only free drinking water to the people of Cite de Soleil and feeds thousands of people a day in and around Port-au-Prince.
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Maria was on the cover of the Holiday 2009 issue of Boston Common magazine. I don’t know whether this is still on newsstands now though … However, if anyone has a copy of this and can scan it for me then please let me know!
It’s the same photoshoot that was seen in last years Philadelphia Style magazine, and I’ll add these extra photos with the next Gallery update.
The Private Lives of Maria B
The unscripted world of a tough-as-nails actress who’s learning to take it easy.
During a recent session, Maria Bello’s therapist asked her to describe her home. “I used words like colorful and eclectic,” Bello says. “She told me that one of Carl Jung’s theories was that the way a person designs her home is a reflection of who she is.” Which makes her description pretty much spot-on. The 42-year-old Golden Globe nominated actress says she never had fantasies about living in a big mansion. Her home is a cozy, little blue, red and yellow cottage in Venice, California, which she shares with her eight-year-old son, Jackson, and her fiancé, Bryn Mooser. It’s filled with funky art and curios from all over the world, including a glass globe with an oyster inside. But you may never see her house the same way twice. “I live into my space,” says Bello. “I like to switch it up.”
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“I’m kind of pedestrian in my movie taste. I like to be entertained,” a refreshingly honest Maria Bello confesses while on the set of her latest film.
“If I read a script and if I find it moving, if I find it has great people and a wonderful director and it’s well-written and it’s a wonderful part, it doesn’t matter if it’s a comedy or action or drama.”
While she’s taken on roles in films as diverse as “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” “Coyote Ugly” and “A History of Violence,” perhaps Bello’s talent will shine brightest in one of her smaller projects, “Downloading Nancy,” which is set to open this weekend.
Guttural, unnerving and raw, Bello’s character in the film, Nancy, battles an addiction to self-harm within the confines of her loveless marriage in the suburbs.
Unable to handle the trauma of her past, Nancy takes to the Internet to find help for an assisted suicide. There she finds Louis, who promises to carry out the murder during a sexual encounter.
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