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TIERRA BLANCA GUERRERO, Mexico – Children in Tierra Blanca Geurrero not only had to bring their books, homework and school supplies to class every day, but also their water.
The school in their small community had no running water, so the children brought what they would need each day for drinking and washing up. Continue reading Water for school children in Mexico
HAITI – Two years ago, a devastating earthquake ripped through the nation of Haiti—changing it forever. Since then, so many of you have made such a significant impact in these communities that we wanted to share just a few of the things your support has accomplished over the last two years. Continue reading Haiti recovery: Two years later
DEATH VALLEY – 5 days. 306 miles. 1 goal. Find out what’s driving Jason Lester, ESPY award winner and ultra endurance athlete, to run 306 grueling miles along the Badwater course through Death Valley to help raise $1 million for Operation Blessing’s clean water projects. Continue reading Badwater for clean water
ST. LUCIA – Just over a week ago, Hurricane Tomas caused huge panic as it moved toward Haiti. With over one million people displaced from their homes and living in flimsy shelters, the media was focused on the camps in Port-au-Prince as the nation braced for the storm. Continue reading Bringing relief to hurricane-ravaged St. Lucia
ST. MARC, Haiti — Today we were back in the St. Marc region making sure that all of our five water units are working well. We arrived to a sad scene of flooding bought on by the storm the night before. Villagers’ houses were filled with thick filthy mud and dirty puddles of water were all over the village. Continue reading Tomas: Clean water vital to prevent cholera spread
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It seems as though Port-au-Prince was spared from the high winds that we feared might come with Hurricane Tomas. This evening there was definitely a sense of relief amongst the displaced people in the camps we serve. But for other parts of the country, the hurricane did spell disaster and this afternoon the OB Haiti team ventured out to Leogane, the epicenter of the earthquake and what seemed to also be the epicenter of suffering from today’s floods. Continue reading Tomas drenches Haiti: “Streets turned into rivers”
GRANDE SALINE, Haiti – On Wednesday night we got an e-mail from Partners in Health (PIH) saying that they had reached a village called Grande Saline that had been cut off by flooding since the outbreak. There were 78 people dead there and many more were sick. Continue reading Cholera update: UN helicopter flies OBI water system to unreached village
JEVIEUX, Haiti – Shortly after driving away from Operation Blessing’s Lifesaver jerrycan distribution to the stranded villagers of Luben last night, we too became stranded. Along the narrow path back, a large tap-tap had buried itself up to the axle on the only path that leads in and out of the village. We tried with no avail to use our 5-ton wench to pull the truck out of the mud and then proceeded to work with other trapped teams to squeeze dangerously close past the truck. Continue reading Cholera update: Teams battle mud, water to reach cut-off villages
DAUPHIN, Haiti—Today I found myself in Port-au-Prince preparing to board a flight home after a personal trip to the mountains of Seguin. I got the call to stay in Haiti and turned my focus toward the cholera outbreak in the Artibonite region. I quickly changed plans, met up with the rest of the Operation Blessing team, and was on my way to St. Marc. We made a pit stop at the St. Nicholas Hospital to meet up with Cate Oswald from Partners In Health to see what areas were severely affected, but not yet reached. Continue reading Cholera update: Teams bring relief to unreached village
BABOU LA PORT, Haiti – We woke to some disturbing news today. Our friends at Partners in Health emailed to say that there were people arriving at St. Nicholas hospital in droves, sick with diarrhea and that people were dying from dehydration at an alarming rate. The question was clear: Could Operation Blessing mobilize to provide clean water to an area suspected of having Haiti’s first major cholera outbreak in decades? Continue reading Cholera outbreak in Haiti: “We arrived to a horror scene”
PAKISTAN – Most of the flood victims had simple homes made out of mud and straw. All their lifelong savings were used to build these “dream homes.” Continue reading Pakistan Relief Blog 6: From a house to a tent
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Despite suffering quake damage that destroyed or damaged several buildings and killed hundreds of staff, Haiti’s largest hospital is still functioning 24/7. Doctors and nurses working long hours amid sweltering sauna-like heat are performing heroically in spite of broken and dilapidated equipment and entire departments are functioning outside under tents. Continue reading Bringing relief to a Haitian hospital