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…)

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…)

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

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

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…)

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…)

We started the day meeting with two lead doctors at Partners in Health’s (PIH) temporary headquarters. They told us about a PIH clinic at a camp called Dadadou. They explained that there was no well or source of water for the 3,000 or so people in the camp – only “a large tank” that needed to be filled regularly with truckloads of water. (more…)

This morning, David, Kumar, Joe, Jon, Pradel and I drove to our rented OBI warehouse across the street from the Port-au-Prince airport. Our local team of 12 Haitian workers and drivers were there, all wearing OBI T-shirts. (more…)

Port-au-Prince, Haiti –  I’ve been awake since 4 a.m. The rest of the Operation Blessing team is still sleeping, but a life-long habit of rising early along with some raucous roosters have me wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. (more…)

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…)