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Sienna Miller blogs about her recent trip to Haiti. Global Ambassador for the International Medical Corp, Sienna Miller visited Haiti to do her part with relief efforts.

Haiti - March 2010
I came to Haiti as an ambassador for the International Medical Corps, an organisation that I have been working with for over a year. Their teams arrived 22 hours after the devastating earthquake of January 12 and have been a powerful and leading medical presence ever since.

I arrived in the Dominican Republic from London on the night of March 18, and met up with my friends Marge Aguirre from International Medical Corps, and David Serota, a talented filmmaker who has come to document the long-term health care needs that lie ahead for Haiti.

We flew the following morning to Port-au-Prince and were met in the chaos by Andy Gleadle, our operations director, (the kind of man mountain that you hope to be around in disaster zones like this one), and were briefed on the security issues we potentially faced. For starters, the local jail was destroyed in the quake and, as a result, 5,000 prisoners are free and roaming the streets. There were serious security problems in Haiti before the earthquake, but of course everything has now intensified. Three NGO workers were kidnapped last week, so Andy told us what to expect and how we would be protected (a two-car convoy at all times, watchmen by the tents etc). Afterward we drove to the guesthouse to meet the team, drop our bags and then head out to start the day. Continue reading....