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Haiti Update from IDRN First Responders

Kyle Adams
36 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 72 Views
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Here is an audio clip of Jean Kaye Wilson talking about her continued efforts in helping the people of Haiti. Jean Kaye and her husband Don were a part of a medical team that arrived in Haiti about a week after the earthquake and stayed for 10 days.

Haiti Update from Hope Extended

Matt Wallace
58 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 144 Views
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 1 week ago
John Seaman offers an update and some comments about their recent work in Haiti. I hope this will provide others with a little more insight into what's been going on and some "Lessons Learned" for future reference. Thanks to John and Hope Extended for their work with the IDRN ...

Connections in Haiti

Kyle Adams
36 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 74 Views
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
In this interview, Wayne Graham talks about his interest in Haiti, one that began on a very personal level. Wayne was instrumental in connecting HISG, IMR, and HELP International with a very capable partner in Port Au Prince who helped make a lot of our efforts a reality. Wayne talks

Phone Interview Update from Haiti with David Bopp in Carrefour

Steve Anness
37 Posts
4 Votes 1 Reply 307 Views
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago, updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
HISG’s Operations Specialist, David Bopp, was recently interviewed by IDRN partner and Global Information Center Director, Matt Wallace, regarding the current IDRN work in Haiti. This phone interview provides up-to-the-minute information regarding David’s work in the Carrefour area, west of Port-au-Prince. It also focuses on how the International ...

HELP International Discusses Time/Work in Haiti

Matt Wallace
58 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 119 Views
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Don & Jean Kaye Wilson of HELP International have been key partners with the International Disaster Response Network (IDRN) from the beginning. They also where some of the first IDRN partners to make it into Haiti after the initial event. They were interviewed a few days after their return, and their

IDRN Operations Overview during Haiti Response

Matt Wallace
58 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 101 Views
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Mark Sprenger has been serving as the Emergency Coordinator for the IDRN during Haiti response. He discusses in the attached phone interview what he sees as happening with the network during this event, and provides some background on activities and new opportunities to expand the network. The interview is concluded ...

Haiti Update Interview with Water Missions International

Matt Wallace
58 Posts
3 Votes 0 Replies 108 Views
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Brad Reed, President of Water Missions International, was recently interviewed by IDRN partner volunteer, Miriam Wallace, regarding their current work in Haiti. This phone interview provides insight into that work, Brad's organization and the International Disaster Response Network (IDRN).

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