Sunday morning in the predawn light I drove over the causeway from St. Simons Island, Georgia headed for the Jacksonville airport and my eventual destination of Mirebalais, Haiti. This trip came about pretty quickly when WWR had been contacted by PBS’s Newshour and told that they would be in Mirebalais for a few days and …
The paint has dried on the new hand washing facility, the bathrooms are neat and orderly, the water filtration system is up and running and the clean water tank is full. World Water Relief has finished the construction stage of our project at Batey Los Robles, a community of little more than 500 “Robleros” as …
We stretched out the kinks from the night’s sleep in JFK and boarded our plane to Santo Domingo. Ben and I occupied the very rear of the jet, spread out and grabbed some sleep. Our motto to this point has been “to eat when you can and sleep when you can”, and so far we’ve …
GOD LITTLE ANGELS ORPHANAGE God’s Little Angels, an orphanage with 170 children reached out for our help. They only had enough water to last until Monday. Dr. Kevin Fussell, who arrived today in Port au Prince has been in touch with the orphanage with good news. He made arrangements for a shipment to arrive tomorrow …
Day number 1 was a whirlwind of preparation and interviews. I had a hospital and clinic full of patients in North Carolina and yet all I could think about was getting to Haiti. I have always wondered what people mean by being “called” to do something, and now I know. I was being called to …