Posts Tagged ‘ Haiti ’

My relief trip to Haiti with pictures, Part 1

February 8, 2010

Last week I was given the opportunity to travel with Helping Hands Foreign Missions to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, providing logistical support to a medical team in the earthquake relief effort. It took two days to get there flying from Atlanta through Miami to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. We left early the morning of the [...]

Haiti T-Minus 1 Day: Follow my trip daily

By Marty Duren

January 30, 2010

I’ll be leaving for Haiti in the morning. Not knowing all the specifics as to Internet availability (my friend’s Blackberry does not even work in PaP), the decision to leave my life’s blood (also known as my MacBook) behind was default. It appears I may not be able to write full length articles from the [...]

Haiti awaits

By Marty Duren

January 28, 2010

Sunday morning will see a team of five leaving Atlanta for Port-au-Prince to assist with medical care to Haitian earthquake survivors and logistics related to the Helping Hands Clinic outside the city. The team, part of Helping Hands Foreign Missions, has been assembled from different states and anticipates two days of traveling–including a 156 mile, [...]

Celebrities and the cult of over importance

By Marty Duren

January 15, 2010

Foreign Policy magazine posted a sobering history of the last half-century of Haitian “natural” disasters like hurricanes and flooding to human disasters Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier, the father and son dictators. Photo after photo and news report following news report show a level of devastation that reminds one of Hurricane Katrina or the Asian [...]

Dear Pat Robertson, SHUT YOUR FREAKING MOUTH!!

By Marty Duren

January 13, 2010

Along with the devastating news of the earthquake in Haiti today, comes the devastating news that 700 Club founder, Pat Robertson, has opened his mouth. In a time that tens of thousands are already known to be missing or dead, a number which potentially might reach 100,000 or more, Drudge reports fears in France everyone [...]