Category Archives: Earthquake
“Loads” of hope
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 … Continue reading
Bringing laughter to children at Dadadou
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.
Reaching 4,500 in Haiti every week
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 … Continue reading
Bringing hope to tsunami survivors in Chile
TALCAHUANO, Chile – Talcahuano was hurt badly by the tsunami that hit Chile’s coast. The naval port was completely swept away and the water system collapsed. Those who lost their homes are being housed in schools and the Chilean government … Continue reading
Beauty among the squalor
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.
Rainy nights, busy days
HAITI – 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.
Tent school serves hundreds of Haiti’s children
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 … Continue reading
Relief for Camp Dadadou
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.
Clean drinking water for Haiti’s youngest
HAITI – Gridlocked traffic, exhaust fumes, blaring horns: a typical morning in Port-au-Prince.
Prayers rise from Haiti’s quiet streets
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Today was the last of three days of official mourning and the usually busy streets of Port-Au-Prince were quiet.
Days of mourning and relief
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – 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 … Continue reading
A day in the life of a relief worker
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – 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.
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