Haiti

Flight to Savanette

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – This morning I joined a Haitian Pastor, Pastor Volner, on a helicopter flight to a remote community that we have been serving with food supplies. On the way we landed in a village called Pouille, home to a rural community of 1,800 people. (more…)

“Loads” of hope

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – My day started with a distribution in downtown Port-au-Prince with The Salvation Army. OBI teamed up with them to hand out our collapsable water kits to 2,000 families. The Salvation Army has been working with a specific camp and do distributions twice a week, usually handing out food. (more…)

Bringing laughter to children at Dadadou

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – On January 12, I was in Jerusalem getting ready to fly to London that night and then on to Niger, West Africa. (more…)

Reaching 4,500 in Haiti every week

Monday, March 8th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Operation Blessing’s relief operations in Haiti have become so huge that we have needed to rent a second warehouse. Now our original warehouse (warehouse 1) will be exclusively for food, water and hygiene supplies. Warehouse 2 will become a distribution hub for medicine and medical supplies. (more…)

Beauty among the squalor

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE – The rain came down so hard it woke me up in the night. It’s 5 a.m. and I hear water gurgling in the downspout and splattering on the concrete slab outside my door. (more…)

Rainy nights, busy days

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

We are in the new house now, and can finally get a full night’s sleep without interruption from street noise, mosquitos or a generator that growls all night like an angry bear. (more…)

Tent school serves hundreds of Haiti’s children

Friday, February 26th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – At 4 a.m. there was a tremor. I heard some neighbors quickly vacating their home. Later, our workers at the warehouse were talking about it and I heard from our customs broker that no one was working at customs for fear of buildings collapsing. (more…)

Relief for Camp Dadadou

Friday, February 26th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Dadadou is a tent city in Port-au-Prince where about 7,000 quake victims are living in tents set up on a sun-scalded AstroTurf soccer field. (more…)

Clean drinking water for Haiti’s youngest

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Gridlocked traffic, exhaust fumes, blaring horns: a typical morning in Port-au-Prince. (more…)

Prayers rise from Haiti’s quiet streets

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Today was the last of three days of official mourning and the usually busy streets of Port-Au-Prince were quiet.  (more…)

Days of mourning and relief

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

With a whopping 29 shipping containers arriving at the Operation Blessing warehouse on Monday, we will be working flat out next week. Each container is packed with essential relief supplies to serve the network of camps, churches and orphanages OBI is supporting.  (more…)

A day in the life of a relief worker

Friday, February 12th, 2010

I’m up at 4:20 a.m. The guest house was still quiet except for the steady purr of the diesel generator in the darkened courtyard.  (more…)

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