to use the bathroom. >> reporter: he has to go and he can't? he can't go to the bathroom. sorry. i can't imagine the pain that he is in right now. >> reporter: many patients don't get treated because they're often required to provide the medical supplies. t hta can't simple as surgical afford. but take a trip outside the capital and you find a remarkable place that many doubted could ever exist in this country. this is st. boniface hospital in fond do blanc up the mountain on haiti's southern peninsula. it was started in 1983, and in the last ten years has become a leading hope. >> people come from hours away to the hospital. and it could be anything, emergency room, anything. >> reporter: conner shapiro is the president of health equity international, which oversees saint boniface. he first came here in 2003, and his wife is haitian. on the day the earthquake struck, he was at work.

>> massive shaking. all the patients came running out of the hospital. all the staff, everyone was running into the yard. we didn't know what had happened. my wife was pregnant with our now 9-year-old, was in port-au-prince at the time, and i didn't know what was going on. >> reporter: i can only imagine what that was like. >> i was very fortunate that my wife and our daughter, they survived, and many people were not as fortunate. it was a horrible situation. >> reporter: instead of falling apart, boniface has only grown. they now get 500 patients a day and went from an annual operating budget of $250,000 when shapiro took over to $8 million today. people risk their lives to get here because they have no other choice. this is the entrance road to the hospital. it is full of ruts. it is mountainous, passable only by dirt bikes like this and four-by-four vehicles.

these bikes effectively act as ambulances for people who need care. the drive up that treacherous road takes the better part of an hour. that's in addition to the three or four hours it can take just to get to the entrance. this woman is nine months' pregnant and could deliver at any moment. >> we have patients coming all day. it's a constant flow of patients. repr: forore than two llion pe on the southern peninsula, this is the emergenc c-section, the only place with a neonatal intensive care unit. >> we have 35 babies here. over 95% of these babies were born here at the hospital in the maternity center. >> reporter: if this unit weren't here, what would happen to these kids? >> it is very difficult to talk about, but if this unit wasn't here, these babies would all die. >> reporter: and what percent of them who are here survive? >> right now we've been able to

make it so that 85% of the baby here is survive. >> reporter: st. boniface has become one of the primary teaching hospitals in all of haiti. it houses the spinal cord trauma center that treated many of the people injured in the earthquake. >> i think what's great is we're not treating most of those spinal cord injured patients who came from the earthquake, and the reason is they're back home living their lives. they've learned how to become productive members of society, despite their handicap. we've been able to reach our goal of reintegrating them and allowing them to go back to being full productive members of society. >> reporter: that could not be more true for maxoni persona. every reason he wheels himself up the hill to work at st. boniface, helping people just as they helped ay after the earthquake. when he was pulled out, he was told he would never walk again. where would you be if it weren't for this place?

>> i don't know. i doowme place tove.et. reporr: very might not be alive.urn any patients away. they also receive no money from the haitian government. they survive on a mix of private donations and outside grants. dr. pierre is in charge of running the hospital on a daily basis. he has been at st. boniface for 18 years. >> i think we inspire people. and that's why also teaching has been more and more part of what we do here, because we want to inspire a new model in the haitian health care system. and with not tons of finances, there are ways to improve the system with some commitment, accountability, and how to work. >> reporter: we asked conner shapiro why boniface has succeeded when so many others

have failed. will there is no magic possession here. it's been this slow successful build that has been given time? >> yes, absolutely. the community here has been the leader of this project from the beginning. they're the ones now working here at the hospital. really, it's about investing in the haitian people, in the physicians, the health practitioner, the nurse, lab techs who are here already. and we need to invest in them to pro be able to provide that care. there are lots of excuses for things to go wrong in haiti. we just don't accept any of them. we just know this is theht to do. to do. >> a remder that we for bathroom odors that linger try febreze small spaces. just press firmly and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days.

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in our series world of worship, we're taking a look at some of the religious practices you may not be familiar with. this morning we turn to sufi islam and a form of meditation called whirling. now, you may have heard of the whirling dervishes, but never seen them in performance. holly williams has the story from turkey. >> reporter: if you had to guess america's most popular poet, you might name emily dickinson or walt whitman or maya angelou. but you might be surprised to learn that one of the best-selling poets in the u.s. is a muslim who lived around 800 years ago. this month, many of his followers are making a religious pilgrimage here to his shrine in turkey.

♪ these men aren't ncg, they're meditating. faces turned towards heaven, communi communitying with god. they're calling whirling dervishing, and their form of worship is to spin and spin and then spin some more. >> they want to say to god please send your mercy to us. >> reporter: mehmet is a third generation dervish, and he has been whirling since he was 14 years old. he says the goal is a kind of religious ecstasy. >> the music goes faster and faster, and you listen that music that's written and you spin faster. and in that moment, you cannot control around you.

you don't know where is right, where is left. you are nonexistence in this world. >> reporter: you're nonexistent in the world? >> yes. this is the aim because you want to be with god. >> reporter: the whirling dervishes are sufi muslims, followers of an ancient school of islamic practice that's famous for its spiritualism and its tolerance. most dervishing are men, but women and even non-muslims also whirl. >> if you come with repentance, the door is always open. >> reporter: once a year, thousands of the faithful make the pilgrimage here to turkey to celebrate the most famous whirler of all. rumi was his name. he lived here during the 13th century and wrote divine love poetry. nearly eight centuries later, his poems are still best-seller, including in the u.s.

the pilgrims come from all over the world to visit resuumi's shrine, and the dervishes go ind >> i don't have to pretend to be anything that i'm not, and nobody is judging me for it. >> reporter: she made the end.rimage from her home in she to ust's vehe type islam sh practiced with her family growing up. >> yeah, here it's more about your heart and who you are, your humanity, your compassion. not that i was brought up taught you all those things, but probably more with fear than with love. >> reporter: rumi's fans extend far beyond the islamic world. ♪ coldplay out with this rumi poem

on its album. beyonce named one of her twins rumi. and in the u.s., there are dervishes -- >> some momentary awareness comes. >> reporter: from new york to kentucky. >> there is an unexpected visitor. >> reporter: rumi and the whirling dervishes are a industry, not just for but also for the tourists who come here knowing mostly nothing. >> he has a famous quotation, come, come, whoever you are, come. your religion is not important. the dervishing, the sufi style, the most important thing is your heart. ♪

>> reporter: one of my first questions for the whirling dervishes is whether o not they

all right. here is a question for you. what is small and tasty and worth more than gold? well, here is a hint. the government of italy uses its special forces to protect them. seth doane brings us this story. >> reporter: in the skies over sicily, italy's paramilitary police force, the carbonieri are on patrol, protecting a product worth tens of millions of dollars. >> we do this kind of patrol. both in copters or ground patrol to prevent the pistachios thief. >> reporter: to prevent pistachio theft? >> yes. >> reporter: yep. captain nicolo ra i on pistachio patrol. after all, this is bronte, a place famed for this flavorful nut cultivated in the shadow of

mount aetna. his family has been in the biz for a good 200 years, with a harvest once every other year, two years of work come down to about 20 days. have you had problems with thieves? >> sometimes in the past, yes. >> reporter: what's happened? >> one, two times some bad people comes with a gun or something like this. >> reporter: they'll come armed for pistachios? >> of course. >> reporter: at the paparro farm, the labor intensive picking, shucking, and drying only add to the price. in just this little storeroom, these bags of dried pistachios are worth about $33,000. it's an appetizing target for thieves. for about five years during harvest time, the carbonieri have been patrolling and setting up roadblocks. it's working. no thefts reported in recent months.

have you ever caught anyone red-handed? >> not this year, but past year, we did. this year we catch three peoples thatre trying to stole -- trying to steal almonds. >> reporter: almonds? more problems than just pistachios. >> really. >> reporter: captain mirandi acknowledges there are more serious problems in sis silly, but here this little nut is big business, earning the nickname green gold. green for its color. gold foreits value. and as for anlmond patrol, well, stay tuned. >> i mean, who couldn't go through a whole bowl of pistachios? just beware of those pistachio pirates that is the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. and for other, check back with us a bit later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in york cit'm e btt.

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