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This webpage's latest update: 8 August 2010. |
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General Itinerary
Photography and related photojournalistic
professional and scholastic activity when possible as
possible, August 8 through 18.
Departing Potter's House, Mount Pleasant, Michigan,
by road at 2:00 AM EDT, August 8. Arrive Detroit,
fly to Miami.
Morning of August 9, depart Miami by air, arrive
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, about 10:30 AM local time (11:30
AM EDT, 10:30 AM CDT).
Approximately five (5) days providing volunteer
assistance and performing freelance activities at,
around, and for the HCI orphanage in the Delmas district
of Port-au-Prince. Teaching the kids basic
healthcare and sanitation, assessing their learning
levels and skills for upcoming schooling, doing lessons,
planting a garden, building a play area and structure,
doing painting projects, etc. The orphanage "has
a housekeeper and a house mom and I think a watchman and
some others, to care for the 15 kids, aged 6 and under,
who are officially adopted. The kids are all still
pretty malnourished, and Carla [of HCI] says things like
vitamins and medications and snacks (which help maintain
the kids' energy throughout the day) are exorbitantly
expensive there, so I am going to collect now and to ask
my home
church in Kingsford, Mich., to gather any kind of
(unopened, NOT EXPIRED - this is important as we could
get in trouble going through customs) childrens'
medication, from daily vitamins to Tylenol to Pepto
Bismo, as well as personal care things like toothpaste
and little soaps, to take in my duffel bag to leave at
the orphanage."
Three (3) days in the tent village of Sous Savanne
near Leogane (epicenter of January's earthquake).
Building a street center, giving soap-box testimonies,
restoring the local church, playing with the kids, etc.
Depart Haiti, return to Michigan, August 18.
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Normally, at the Human Relief Fund we don't assist and promote
the projects of individuals'. But in this instance we're
making an exception because we believe Libby March's project
will be of assistance to many Haitian children victimized by
January's earthquake. It's a commitment to more than an
individual.
Libby is presently making final plans to assist, physically, Heart
Cry International (HCI) at its new orphanage in Haiti and,
as a photojournalist,
to cover and report on the establishment and development of
HCI's orphanage. It's our hope that this coverage will
present the orphanage in such a way as to promote and advocate
help from others for Haitian children. It's also our
belief that this will be a relatively cheap and effective way
of utilizing one person's talents to help many who need
the basics of life to survive, to live in good health, and to
grow to support themselves and to rebuild their society.
Libby, a native of Iron Mountain, Michigan, and student at Central
Michigan University, is not only a
precocious and reputable award-winning student photographer and
journalist, but also a practicing
professional freelance photojournalist and award-winner.
Most recently, she won First Place from the Michigan
Press Photographers' Association for this year's Feature
Picture Story. This even as she was winning Third Place as
Michigan's College Photographer of the Year. More
importantly, Libby has a passion to help and a history of
getting involved. She'll assist as a hands-on volunteer
among the kids who need it. She'll assist also through her
talents as a photojournalist who can bring the story and the
plea of these kids to others who can help.
One of our goals at the Human Relief Fund, and among our
sponsors and partners, is to enable the enablers, to help the
helpers. Libby is a good example of one of these
helpers. By helping her, we help others -- in this case,
orphans of Haiti. If Libby's project goes as well as we
expect it to, we'll be doing more of this in the future.
Though HCI will provide a support system for Libby while
she's in Haiti, you have helped her gather the money to pay for
her flights and to
meet her living expenses while there this August. Thank you.
We're no longer raising funds here to help Libby defray the
costs of this project.
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On behalf of Libby and
the Haitian kids who'll benefit, thank you for your
attention, care, and generosity. |
Thank you for helping Libby March save
children. |
