Today the entire Operation Blessing team and a team of Israeli doctors from our partner organization IsraAid went to the village of Balan for a multi-faceted relief mission. (more…)

Earlier this week, we distributed diapers, baby formula, baby bottles, food and baby food to two orphanages in Port-au-Prince with approximately 140 children combined. One of the orphanages focuses on babies, where over 30 infants are living outside under a tarpaulin, so the baby food was a God-send. (more…)

We had a productive day with Partners in Health (PIH) at the Parque Jean Marie Vincent camp (pop. 28,000). We met with Dr. Lambert in the morning at the PIH mobile clinic that was packed with patients. (more…)

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…)