(originally appeared in Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
By JESSICA COLLIER, Enterprise Staff Writer
February 16, 2010
After a mammoth earthquake laid waste to Haiti last month, many people donated money to the relief efforts to help the people there.
Some, however, were not satisfied to leave it at that.
Long Lakers Caleb Thompson and Andy Pratt were two such do-gooders. After the earthquake, Thompson and Pratt decided to head to Haiti to help.
Just last fall, Thompson had done mission work through in Anse-a-Galet, a town on the island of La Gonave in Haiti’s Gulf of Gonave, about 25 miles northwest of the quake’s epicenter in Port-Au-Prince.
Thompson checked with his contacts in Anse-a-Galet, and while the island largely escaped the destruction the earthquake caused, refugees were streaming there in droves looking for relief from the ruins of the mainland. Caleb’s father, Chris Thompson, said that just after the earthquake, 750 to 1,000 new refugees would appear every day, with the hospital seeing 150 new cases a day, though he said he expects that number may have dropped off slightly since. (originally appeared in Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
By JESSICA COLLIER, Enterprise Staff Writer
February 16, 2010
After a mammoth earthquake laid waste to Haiti last month, many people donated money to the relief efforts to help the people there.
Some, however, were not satisfied to leave it at that.
Long Lakers Caleb Thompson and Andy Pratt were two such do-gooders. After the earthquake, Thompson and Pratt decided to head to Haiti to help.
Just last fall, Thompson had done mission work through in Anse-a-Galet, a town on the island of La Gonave in Haiti’s Gulf of Gonave, about 25 miles northwest of the quake’s epicenter in Port-Au-Prince.
Thompson checked with his contacts in Anse-a-Galet, and while the island largely escaped the destruction the earthquake caused, refugees were streaming there in droves looking for relief from the ruins of the mainland. Caleb’s father, Chris Thompson, said that just after the earthquake, 750 to 1,000 new refugees would appear every day, with the hospital seeing 150 new cases a day, though he said he expects that number may have dropped off slightly since. ...
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