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Accident sends teenage boy miles from home to receive assistance from LDS network and hospital
Mormon Life says: A heartwarming story . . .
Giovanni Pierre-Louis was 11 years old, playing with a friend on a pleasant afternoon in September 2008 in Leogane, Haiti. Unbeknownst to Giovanni and the others, a deadly electrical cable lay a...
Haiti remains a focus for Church humanitarian relief efforts
Haiti's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake in January 2010 and a deadly cholera outbreak last month has kept the Caribbean island country a central focal point for Church humanitarian-relief efforts for a year. The Jan. 12, 2010, quake killed an estimated 230,000 Haitians, injured 300,000 and...
A year later, Church continues to provide aid to Haiti
Mormon Life says: Read this for the numbers and facts--did you know over 1 million pounds of food have been donated by the Church? Pretty awesome.
The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 shattered and changed millions of lives, but the relief efforts and outpouring of support by organizations and individuals worldwide...
Mormon Church aid still reaches Haiti despite ongoing obstacles
Haiti's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake in January 2010 and a deadly cholera outbreak last month has kept the Caribbean island country a central focal point for LDS Church humanitarian-relief efforts for a year. Similar to providing ongoing humanitarian assistance in other disaster areas...
Rebuilding Haiti
Mormon Life says: The images shocked the world—masses of Haitians, starving and injured; people digging through the rubble of Port-au-Prince with their bare hands in desperate search of loved ones; the Presidential Palace in ruins.
Wednesday, January 12, marks the one-year anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people, injured 300,000, and left one million homeless. During that time, what has been done to help the shattered Caribbean nation rebuild? And how are the Church and its members helping?
Sadly, reconstruction efforts in Haiti have inched forward at a painfully sluggish pace due in large part to a nearly nonexistent government. That, compounded by a cholera outbreak that has killed...
525,600 Minutes
There are approximately 525,600 minutes in a year. (For all you trivia buffs out there, yes, I am aware that in the Gregorian calendar an average year is exactly 365.2425 days, but for simplicity’s sake, I’m rounding down to 365 for this equation.)As we begin 2011, I can’t help but wonder how well...
Church joins other organizations to help in Haiti cholera outbreak
The Church has joined with other nongovernmental organizations in response to major cholera outbreaks in Papua New Guinea and Haiti. Health officials in Papua New Guina report that the number of cases of Cholera in their country is declining; more than 280 people have died with more than 2,000...
Church responds to cholera outbreak in Haiti and Papua New Guinea
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has joined with other nongovernmental organizations in response to a major cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea. Local Church leaders report 75 deaths from the outbreak among Latter-day Saints. It is unclear how many total deaths there are, but some...
LDS Church explains why Haiti chapel rejected hurricane victims
Mormon Life says: We knew the AOL story looked fishy. There are always two sides to a story.
This weekend, an AOL article reported that Haitians displaced by flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas were not allowed shelter in a Church meetinghouse in Leogane, Haiti. The fact is that other Church...
No sanctuary at this LDS church in Haitian storm
Mormon Life says: Apparently, an LDS meetinghouse in Haiti was only offering refuge to members during the violent storm last week.
The water in Haiti's seaside town of Leogane rose to the doorsteps of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But if you're local, and homeless, you needn't have bothered coming here for...
10 months after rescue of daughter from Haiti, family is sealed
Last Friday dawned with the promise that Jeremy and Hollie Wardle would finally reach the culmination of their journey to bring their family together. They and their children would finally be sealed to the last addition to their family—their 7-year-old, Gabbie. “When all six of the kids came in,...
Journey for a Lifetime
Mormon Life says: Through a chain of events filled with sorrow and joy, Jeremy and Hollie Wardle found the children who were to join their family. And in their journey to rescue one daughter from the after-effects of Haiti's magnitude 7.0 earthquake, they discovered an even greater bond.
Jeremy and Hollie Wardle had already started their family journey with two beautiful boys when it took an unexpected detour. For the second time, they lost a son after premature birth. Inconsolable,...
