Haitian relief and Lori Carpenter

Ed Pearce of KOLO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Reno, Nevada has this interview:

These days Lori Carpenter’s thoughts rarely stray from people she knows thousands of miles away in Haiti.

Work continues at her hydrology consulting firm in south Reno, but she works the phone and computer keeping an eye on an orphanage outside Port Au Prince.

Carpenter is on the board of directors of God’s Littlest Angels orphanage and she’s been trying to get some of its children out of the country and trying to get supplies in.

Today’s news is good. Seventy eight children left for new homes in the U-S, making room for a few of the hundreds of thousands of new orphans created by the earthquake.

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My employer, Lori Carpenter and her husband, Clay Cooper, have had a long association with the God’s Littlest Angels (GLA) ophanage outside the village of Fermanthe, in the mountains above Pétion-Ville, Haiti.

In May, 2007, they traveled again to the GLA orphanage with a team of eleven engineers and architects, to locate a clean water well, and design new facilities to better serve the needs of Haitian orphans.

Lori and Clay are parents to two lovely Haitian orphans, brother and sister, Shedy and Kendy.

Here is a great film detailing the week long efforts at Fermanthe in 2007 (use the hyperlink).

Meanwhile. the need is growing exponentially at GLA, as the loss of human life - parents and caregivers - will swell the ranks of GLA’s ability to provide without help from us.

Here is an interview with GLA co-founder, Dixie Bickel with Today Show host Matt Lauer, speaking about the night of terror at the orphanage:

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You can go directly to the GLA website and donate, but as things are, the website is busy, and you may have to check back in. Don’t let that deter you. Please come back and give what you can.