OBI has started feeding children living in and around the National Soccer Stadium. Yesterday we handed out hot meals to over 2,000 children. (more…)

I have been spending my nights in an aircraft hangar for almost a full week now and have gotten used to the constant roar of engines from the huge cargo planes constantly taking off and landing. The long hours working under the hot sun make us so tired that we can sleep regardless of the noise. But yesterday morning, I was jolted awake by the sound of the entire hangar rattling and groaning. (more…)

PORT-AU-PRINCE – For the third day in a row we have worked to treat victims in the Port-au-Prince soccer stadium. What started as an impromptu clinic has grown to become a field hospital where injured are kept overnight in tents. (more…)

PORT-AU-PRINCE – This morning our team left the airport and headed to the soccer stadium that is now a temporary home to 2,000 quake victims. It seems like every time we exit the airport there are more and more people gathered outside the gates desperate for help. Note: Blog contains some graphic images. (more…)

Our emergency paramedic team arrived yesterday morning from Israel. We immediately equipped them with medicines and transported them into the heart of the quake zone and to the National hospital, the same hospital where we were working on the day the quake struck (see day 1 blog). (more…)

PORT-AU-PRINCE – We’re in! After a struggle to reach Port-au-Prince, Tony, our video producer, and I were finally able to get two seats on a plane from the Dominican Republic. It was a tiny “4-seater” and was so full of relief gear that it tipped back on its tail before we took off. (more…)

Santo Domingo – I’m in the Dominican Republic and exhausted after another night of travel and little sleep. Aid workers and news crews have been pouring in from all over the world and the airport has been a mad house of teams trying to fly into Port-au-Prince as soon as they can. (more…)

I was in Haiti less than a month ago working with Eric Lotz, our Haiti national director. Operation Blessing had been asked by President Clinton’s office of the UN Special Envoy to Haiti to carry out an assessment of the sewage system at the national hospital in Port-au-Prince. (more…)

The village of Balan is as close to hell as you can get in this hemisphere. (more…)

Rarely is it good news when an employee reports that a company office is “In The Red” but on this occasion it’s very, very good news. (more…)

YAO JIN, China – On May 12, 2008, the village of Yao Jin was completely destroyed by the 7.9-magnitude Sichuan earthquake that struck central China. Buildings crumbled, tens of thousands were killed and millions left homeless. Six Yao Jin villagers died and the survivors endured a living nightmare, losing their homes, their possessions and their main source of income – their farm animals.  For the shocked villagers of Yao Jin, the future seemed bleak. (more…)

We were headed to the village of Onna, which had sustained massive destruction during the 6.3-magnitude earthquake. Out of a population of around 310 residents, as many as 38 were killed. (more…)