Archive for Field Reports
Everybody Needs Everything
Yesterday was flat out awesome! It’s so great to have such a big stockpile of filters to work with. In the morning, Paula (from David Belle’s network in Jacmel), came with a huge truck and picked up the 1500 filters I promised to the Crose Network. It feels so good to follow through on my [...]
Read moreYou Ready? – Haiti
There’s really no substitute for putting in the hours. The only way to have an even semi effective operation down here is to personally oversee every stage. Simply put, it just comes down to time spent. There’s so much chaotic energy that it’s so easy for good intentions to slip through the cracks a fall [...]
Read moreTents, Rice, Water – Haiti
Happy Superbowl… I think it’s today? Who am I kidding, I don’t even know who’s playing! Made another food drop yesterday. Six bags of rice – to a tent community that has seen little to no support. There were only four of us so we had to be smart. You absolutely can not just rock [...]
Read moreWe Need Help!
It’s Friday! … Feb 5th, 9pm EST. I’m in a cargo plane somewhere between Florida and the Caribbean. What a trip! Red-eye from LAX to Miami last night. I was only home for 5 days, which really wasn’t enough time to process the experience from the week before. There were a couple days where I [...]
Read moreFighting for Survival – Haiti
Yesterday was gritty. We received a new shipment of medical supplies and food the night before. It was going to be our first attempt at doing a food drop in one of the tent cities, called San Teresa. We tried to drum up some ideas that might help us organize the distribution prior to getting [...]
Read moreHope, Help & Dispair – Haiti
The lack of sleep is starting to take its toll. Plenty of time to sleep when I get home though. Another incredibly productive day yesterday. I went to Jacmel with David Belle to demonstrate our program to his network. The leader of this group used to be the Minister of Agriculture and has a lot [...]
Read moreStench from Decaying Bodies – Haiti
With each new day, operations get smoother. It’s great to see progress and synergy becoming more consistent. I ventured out with the medical team and set up a mobile station in a downtown section of Port-Au-Prince that was hit incredibly hard. These people have had very little attention – mainly due to inaccessibility. Many of [...]
Read moreA Day of Hope & Progress
Wow… Lots of progress in one day. Still awaiting the next shipment of filters but have tapped into another great local network via David Belle. He is from NY but lives here part time and is the founder of a film school in the southern part of Haiti called Jacmel. He has a very strong [...]
Read moreIncredible Success – Haiti
Greetings! Yesterday was an incredible success. Scott Bonnell and I ventured to some of the outer regions (that are getting less attention) to link up with his network of churches and schools. I was really looking at this network to be a potential plan for the distribution of our filters etc… We needed to find [...]
Read moreThe Country is Sleeping Outside – Haiti
Day one we felt two more decent sized aftershocks. Everyone in this country is sleeping outside. Most buildings that were left standing are still considered hazardous and will probably collapse within the next few weeks. Most businesses are closed and there is still no electricity in most areas. Our base camp is running off one [...]
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