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Urgent Need For Help In Haiti
Hello Alter Bridge Nation, As some of you may know, Dan Catullo of DC3 has teamed up with a bunch of artists to deliver aid, doctors and supplies on a plane bound for Haiti. We supported this effort along with other artists such as Godsmack and Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine) and New Kids On The Block, to name a few. We were not going to publicize our involvement as we choose to do our charity work in private, but a letter we just received changed our minds. Dan’s assistant sent us [...]
Rotary Club of Freeport presents twelve wheelchairs to the Rand Memorial Hospital
FREEPORT, Grand Bahama -- On Friday January 21st 2010, the Rotary Club of Freeport presented twelve new wheelchairs to the Rand Memorial Hospital. This presentation is made possible through fund-raising efforts by the Rotary Club of Freeport and the Wheelchair Foundation. The club's wheelchair project has been ongoing for about twelve years and approximately 160 wheelchairs have been presented to deserving recipients on Grand Bahama and throughout the Abaco Cays. In Grand Bahama, [...]
New Fundraiser starting for planetohaiti.org
David Archuleta is listed as a Key Donor with the Charity Relief "Plane To Haiti". David truly has a heart for helping others in need! ANGELS FOR A CAUSE IS STARTING A SPECIAL FUNDRAISER, DONATIONS THAT ARE MADE DIRECTLY TO PLANETOHAITI.ORG VIA THEIR WEBSITE FOR $10.00 DURING THE TIME FRAME 02/01/10 TO 02/28/10 WILL RECEIVE A SPECIAL GIFT FROM US. Angels for a Cause will be hosting a 'One month' fundraiser to help bring much needed donations to this cause. Many fans have already [...]
2nd “Plane To Haiti” update from Charli Butterfield
Well, another very busy day for us on the ground in Ft. Lauderdale. We are preparing for our 2nd flight to Port-au-Prince tomorrow. I have been on the phone all day confirming the names and required paperwork for all the new doctors and nurses we are taking to Haiti tomorrow along with some people working for "Clean water for Haiti" and two missionaries. Every seat on the plane is full, with people both going to Haiti and returning back home to resupply. We have filled our cargo [...]
Text Message From Chris Rudd in Haiti
Chris Rudd, an attorney and Board member, sends us a text message of his impressions from within Haiti. "We arrived to Port-au-Prince late Wednesday with doctors, nurses, a former 82nd airborne medic, and about 3 tons of supplies. The US troops made us feel right at home at a campsite for the few hours until dawn. By early AM, we split into 2 groups. One joined Scott Stapp of Creed, who came days earlier and volunteered himself into setting up an ad hoc hospital some distance from [...]
Mobile Photos from “Plane To Haiti”
These pictures were taken with Jeff Behring's phone. Jeff, along with two doctors and two nurses, drove for two hours outside of Port-au-Prince to setup a makeshift medical clinic. They gave wheelchairs to people in the village to help transport wounded and sick people to the clinic. The Haitian people were very malnourished and standing 50 deep in line to see doctors for medical attention. Conditions are very grim.
“Plane To Haiti” update from Charli Butterfield
As a first hand report of our first trip into Haiti to provide doctors, nurses, medical supplies, wheelchairs, and other emergency supplies, everything went very smoothly. We departed from the Ft. Lauderdale airport at 9:15 PM for an arrival into Port-au-Prince at 11:00 PM last night. Everything was dark, so we couldn't see much from the air on our approach. Haiti has a curfew for everyone which takes effect at 7:00 PM, so the team was forced to sleep at the airport until 6:00 AM, [...]
Aid Plane Departs for Haiti
At 8:30 this morning an MD-87 filled with over three tons of emergency medical supplies and wheelchairs departed Stockton for a humanitarian aid trip to Haiti. There were also 8 doctors and trauma nurses, a documentary film crew and Wheelchair Foundation (a Division of Global Health & Education Foundation) representatives on board. This is a story of many different groups collaborating together in a short period of time to provide important relief to a country in crisis. We will be [...]
Haiti, NGO’s and the Challenges Providing Aid
Joe Hackman discusses the challenges facing Non Government Organizations delivering aid internationally with Gerry Riley of the Wheelchair Foundation. Gerry Riley has been the Transportation and Logistics Manager for the Wheelchair Foundation since 2003. During that time, he has helped ship nearly 1,500 orders, a total of more than 650,000 wheelchairs, all over the world. He has learned a lot about the problems that can be encountered in trying to send aid. The Foundation provided wheelchairs [...]
Creed, New Kids on the Block Team Up for Haiti
A motley crew of musicians manage to pull together $1 million to send medical relief to Haiti. In yet another much-needed and highly-coordinated effort, a plane carrying a whopping 10,000 pounds of medical supplies, along with doctors and medical staff took off out of Long Beach, CA at 11 a.m. today bound for Haiti's quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince. But the MD-80 (a mid-range commercial airplane) isn't part of a Doctors Without Borders mission. Rather, it's the result of a $1 million [...]