HAITI DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS
UPDATE: Sheriff Thomas Brown will kick-off the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office Haiti disaster relief efforts today at 2 p.m. with a personal donation of $1,000. The Sheriff’s Office will be accepting...
View ArticleJoy and pain in waiting for word from Haiti
Fritz Aristilde will tell anyone who will listen that God answers prayers. After nearly a week of gut-wrenching waiting and imaging worst possible outcomes, Aristilde received word on Jan. 19 that his...
View ArticleAcross DeKalb, folks dig deep to help the citizens of Haiti
It’s been more than three weeks since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, and during that time people in the United States and across the globe have been energetically raising money and collecting...
View ArticleDeKalb agency assisting families of Haitian medical evacuees
Haitian medical evacuees have been arriving in Georgia over the past few weeks and a DeKalb relief agency, Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA), located in Decatur, has been...
View ArticleLocal man helps with Haiti relief mission, finds many obstacles
Haiti remains ravaged by infrastructural damage, poor communications, petty corruption and impassible roads, making relief efforts continuously difficult in some areas, according to a local man who was...
View ArticleMedical volunteers seeking crutches for return trip to Haiti
Freeborn Ukpede and Kathy Davison want anyone who has unused crutches and canes to know that they have a way to put them to good use—send them to Haiti for children and adults who have had amputations,...
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