Saturday, 06.08.2011. It is 3:00 p.m., after a 10 hours flight, I am lying exhausted on my bed in the Miami Airport Hotel. Beside me are a big cardboard box and a thick letter, delivered by FedEx. A convincing concept, the brainchild of the organisations Hanger Ivan R. Sabel Foundation and medi for help, to support the earthquake victims in Haiti have led me down this road. The cardboard box contains materials and adapter components for prostheses, pressed together in a large duffel bag weighing about 25 kg, which I will be taking with me to Haiti on Sunday morning at 6:45 a.m.

Together with four other participants from Switzerland, who I will soon get to meet, I will be constructing prostheses – this will be my vacation for the next 14 days. After us, the next group will come, then the next and so on and so forth…. Of course, I committed myself when medi for help sent the request – but should I really have done so? My English is mediocre, I do not speak any French at all and no Creole, and there are 100 more reasons why I should stay away from this. However, there is one good reason and it is for this reason that I’m here at the hotel -

“BECAUSE IT’S POSSIBLE.”