Haiti August 15-29, 2010 These are my pictures from Haiti (August 15-29) in both Port-au-Prince, where we spent the first and last nights of the trip, and the bulk from Jacmel. My volunteer work was manual labor at a construction site, helping build a computer lab and library for an orphanage with 28 boys ages [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Haiti’
9 Aug
My Trip to Haiti…and You
My apologies for being AWOL last week. I was sick as a dog. While everyone else on the East Coast (and much of America) was sweating through a heatwave, I was buried under mounds of covers with an electric blanket set on “7″ and shivering because I still couldn’t get warm from a raging fever. [...]
17 Jun
Change the World One Pair at a Time
As I get closer to booking travel to Haiti to do a volunteer gig, I’m paying even more attention to other organizations that are on the ground there, starting the long hard efforts of recovery and rebuilding. Soles 4 Souls is an organization that collects gently used as well as new shoes from distributors and [...]
20 Apr
Demi Moore, Haiti, and Child Slavery
Demi Moore was recently in Haiti, and upon her return has redoubled her already significant efforts to end child slavery around the world. Her charity with husband, Ashton Kutcher, Demi & Ashton Foundation (DNA) has become painfully aware of the Restavek System in Haiti, where children, about 300,000 are forced into servitude and doing much [...]
22 Mar
World Water Day
I’m in Boston for business this week, and today it has been drizzling rain all day. It’s wet, but not particularly cold as spring is knocking at the door. If I stand outside this great inn where I am staying, I could tip my head up to the sky and catch the light rain on [...]
12 Feb
Long-Term Help in Haiti
On Wednesday, I listened in on a conference call for supporters of Doctors Without Borders to get an update on the situation in Haiti. Much of that information was fascinating, firsthand accounts from people who were in the country when the earthquake hit, and learning that there are currently 260 aid organizations and charities in [...]
26 Jan
Ricky Martin & Habitat in Haiti
One of the elements of the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake is the still uncounted numbers of orphaned children. We understand all too clearly the hardship these kids do now and will face as the nation begins trying to move ahead. One of the side-effects we may not have thought of is just how vulnerable [...]
25 Jan
Teens for Jeans
Getting kids motivated to reach out and be bigger than they are can be quite simple, and even financially rewarding. Doing good for others can be something more than selfless. The DO Something organization, in a win/win set up with teenagers, has created the “Teens for Jeans” program in partnership with Aéropostale stores. Teens donate [...]
18 Jan
Martin Luther King, Jr—Day of Service
Today is MLK Day, and it has also become our national Day of Service. It is a day to honor the Right Reverend by embodying what he held above all else—people reaching out to others. The theme of the movement is “MAKE IT A DAY ON, NOT A DAY OFF” Doctor King said so many [...]
16 Jan
Rescue Dogs
As time flies by and the mission in Haiti tips dangerously toward that line of demarcation between “rescue” and “recovery”…some of the hardest working suppliers of assistance are the emergency rescue dogs. They will be the ones to locate survivors, and there are several from agencies from many nations on the ground now, sniffing at [...]
