When the catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan 12th, I along with the rest of the world watched the news coverage in horror.
Like most everyone, I gave money. I do not know how many times I text 'Yele' to 501501- to pledge a 5 dollar donation. Late January, I began contacting NGOs to see what more I could do to help- at that time only medical professionals were being deployed to Haiti.
In mid February I received an email from Hands on Disaster Response (HODR) stating that they had availability for their project in Haiti on my desired dates.
I got my 30 days PTO approved. 30 DAYS!!! Awesome! I work for a fantastic agency who are very supportive in the personal and profession endeavors of it's employees.
For now I will use this blog to help me raise funds for my flight and the supplies I will bring to Haiti with me. I am allowed two 50 pound carry on bags. One bag will be for my personal belongings and the other bag will be for 'wish list' items for the project (sledge hammer handles, earmuff/hearing protection) which is updates weekly. (RT flights are roughly 700 bucks)
When in Haiti, I will journal my experience with HODR in this blog and hopefully post lots of pictures and a video or two.
Thanks so much for your support and your friendship.
Here is a little video of HODR in Action.
NOTE: A full account of expenditure will be published on my return and any surplus funds raised will be donated to HODR
