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WRAL in Haiti
WRAL News reporter David Crabtree, photographer Keith Baker and engineer Tony Gupton traveled to Haiti with Global Medical Outreach to report on the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and medical relief efforts. WRAL will continue to tell the story of the relief and recovery in this blog.
This week, WRAL News visits Haiti to mark three years since the island nation was devastated by a massive earthquake. The Tar Heel Traveler talked to a North Carolina missionary group that opened an orphanage in Haiti named for Ryan Epps.
The soldiers were among the first units that flew to Haiti to help in recovery efforts after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Parishioners of St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Apex raised more than $53,000 in a Lenten drive to help the Macombre Academy and F.I.S.H. Ministries in Haiti.
In an update on the continuing medical crisis in Haiti, CBS News visited the country April 25. The story was reported largely from the hospital establishedthere by University of Miami Haiti Hospital.
More than 330 soldiers from the 407th Brigade Support Battalion, "Gold Falcons," 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division will depart Haiti Friday after more than two months.
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