Ann Curry Goes To Haiti For 'Dateline' Special (VIDEO)

Ann Curry traveled to Haiti with a group of American volunteers helping to fight the country's cholera outbreak for her latest "Dateline" special.

The special, which airs on Sunday, Jan. 9, at 7, focuses on the trip Curry made to a village called Medor. The village has been racked by the cholera epidemic ravaging the country. The volunteers, led by a man named Stan Brock, parachuted into Medor and began giving medical care. They also started building an airstrip so that people could get to the village more easily. However, they had only 12 days to complete their mission.

In a statement, Curry lauded the American volunteers, and said their story was an inspiration:

"Some of these American parachuters are retirees, one had recently had a hip replacement, yet they jumped from a C-47 plane that had flown on D-Day, not letting their age, the remoteness of the village, not even Haiti's government red tape stop them from getting cholera medicines to people who were sick and dying.

They got US doctors to the village, who set up clinics, saved lines and cared for hundreds of people needing medical attention. They also engineered an airstrip, hoping to land a plane there this week, that can carry in more supplies.

In the wake of the tragedy of Haiti's massive earthquake a year ago this month, and the devastating cholera epidemic, this is a story of how a "can-do" spirit, planned by members of the Greatest Generation, can move mountains and bring hope. And to top it off, they did it with a sense of humor."

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"There's no sanitation. There's no electricity. There's no running water. There's no way in in a vehicle. There's no way in by air. And, now, you've got a cholera epidemic and people are dying. So, the only way to describe it, is extreme."