Posted on 12/23/2010 12:28:53 AM PST by onyx
If you are still looking for a cause to donate to this Christmas, allow me to make a suggestion. Todd, Bristol, Greta Van Susteren, and I recently traveled to Haiti to witness first hand the amazing work done by Rev. Franklin Graham’s organization Samaritan’s Purse. Bristol wrote about our experiences on her Facebook page here.
In an effort to fight a deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti, Samaritan’s Purse has flown over a dozen flights carrying vital medical supplies to the two cholera treatment centers it has been running since the start of the outbreak. These centers, run by medical volunteers from the U.S., Canada, and the UK, have helped save the lives of nearly 5,000 patients.
The cholera treatment centers are part of a larger Samaritan’s Purse effort aimed at restoring the human dignity and economic independence of the Haitian people. Since the disastrous earthquake in January of this year, Samaritan’s Purse has spent $29 million on relief, helping more than half a million people by building 10,000 shelters (more than half of the shelters built in Haiti to date have been put up by Samaritan’s Purse); providing non-cholera related medical assistance (including 250 surgeries) to a total of 43,000 patients; providing clean drinking water to more than 75,000 people; and clearing the rubble from 179 building sites.
None of this would have been possible without the generosity of countless small donors. With all the blessings bestowed upon us in this great country of ours, we also have an opportunity to share those blessings with people who are less fortunate. Samaritan’s Purse is doing exactly that – saving lives one person at a time.
If you’d like to support the great work Samaritan’s Purse does in Haiti and around the world, please visit their website.
Below you’ll find some photos of our Haiti visit taken by Greta Van Susteren. They show what we saw at a temporary housing camp, at the cholera clinics in Bercy and Cité Soleil, and at a meeting where we helped to bring smiles to children’s faces by handing out shoeboxes filled with presents as part of Samaritan's Purse’s worldwide Operation Christmas Child.
- Sarah Palin
Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John; Franklin Graham and his daughter, Cissy; and Todd, Bristol, and I had the privilege of passing out Samaritan’s Purse gifts to Haitian children. Volunteers with Samaritan’s Purse assembled 8 million Christmas gift boxes to bless children around the world this season!
Press the photo below to go directly to Sarah's FaceBook page to see the rest of her photos with her captions from Haiti!
She should keep doing more things like this.
“She should keep doing more things like this.”
Comes naturally to her...
Answer that one Karl Rove?
Good for her. She has a big heart.
I am convinced now that Greta and her husband and crack humanitarian lawyer John Coal will be a part of Sarah’s team is elected
I am convinced now that Greta and her husband and crack humanitarian lawyer John Coal will be a part of Sarah’s team if elected
Hey, I missed you on Sunday! Good to see you here!
John Coale already works in Sarah’s behalf. Like you, I am thinking the four of them have become pretty close friends.
We are still busy running around the internet enjoying all the things that webtv with dial up could never do.
We upgraded to the Logitech Revue and it is like being able to go around the world.
Webtv would only allow free republic/private email and some google.
Now the skies the limit.
Talk about a non techy brain marathon.
KV has had me busy starting all his favorite custom radio music channels/he is now twitter/facebook for the Conservative Catholic self page...
So Sarah is a twitter and facebook link in that he gets all the updates right away. Didn’t no how archaic we were with webtv, but glad we waited untill a new internet box came out so we could interact with tvshows/movies ect.
Still have allot to figure out.
The problem with not being to see the print? I found that button to increase/decrease at a whim so we Both can read the screen now!
I caught the edit. 8^)
Nice thought.
I Y this good woman.
You two have fun. I stayed up to "bake" goodies tonight, so I need to get a little sleep right now, with a nap for certain sometime later today!
I just came across a wonderful photo of Sarah...not really suitable for her Haiti thread...LOL.... but very nice for Christmas Eve day.
evilcrats and corrupticans.
LLS
When the government changed hands in a violent revolution February 8--I was there-- it changed everything.
The safety and security of the baby doc regime was gone. Gone too was the unbelievable hold he had on the people. But, to change all that overnight with no administration in place can be a disaster for any third world country. And it was for Haiti and still is.
They need an economy and so many other things,its a huge task to undertake.
No thanks. I’ll send my cash elsewhere, where they don’t lynch 4 dozen homeopathic healers for witchcraft in a single week. Haiti needs more Jesus, not more money. They’ve gotten billions over the decades, with no results. And I don’t trust the groups managing them now either—the U.N. and Clinton Foundation.
I think a better phrasing would be “Help Haitians.” Individual people in Haiti can be helped with food, clothing, shelter, medicine. Haiti as a country (formally, at least) cannot be helped by any amount of good-hearted works ... only by a miraculous intervention of God.
Imagine Greta as White House Press Secretary, and smile.
> “She should keep doing more things like this.”
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You mean like she has been doing all her life?
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