Help Where It Is Needed
Formed in 1988, the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps serves a predominantly African-American community in the 79th and 81st precincts in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Brooklyn's All-Volunteer Ambulance Corps

The Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps provides emergency medical services in a community that is underserved by the health care industry. Now it has sent its staff to Haiti

Photographs and story by Michael Kirby Smith

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