A 12 year-old from Ocean County with brain cancer who has to be fed through a tube, but whose family can't afford the special liquid food. A 9-year-old from the Dominican Republic with Fanconi anemia, a genetic disease that required a bone-marrow transplant.
TAMPA -- In the Dominican Republic, children call him fuerte, Spanish for strong. He helped build churches. He passed out shoes and food. He was a friend, playfully tossing the little ones in the air like rubber balls.
Preliminary estimates for Arab countries indicated that Bahrain, Kuwait and Morocco all planned to donate $1 million each totals by various sources, with Kuwait's donation coming through its Red Crescent Society, a Muslim humanitarian relief organization. Jordan sent a Royal Air Force plane carrying a mobile field hospital and six tons of food, medicine and clothing, while the Lebanon Daily Star reported that medical and media teams along with 35 tons of supplies were expected to be sent from Beirut on Tuesday, January 19. Qatar was also expected to mobilize a 26-man rescue team while sending 50 tons of aid according to Arabianbusiness.com. Despite recent financial troubles in the area, the United Arab Emirates is also well-represented. A Red Crescent authority team from the UAE was exp...
... was expected to land in the neighboring Dominican Republic on January 19 with $500,000 worth of food...
PATERSON -- Members of a local civic group who ventured to quake- ravaged Haiti have returned to safety, but two 44-foot containers filled with food and clothing they planned to deliver are still sitting in a Dominican Republic port. Paperwork problems at customs in the Dominican Republic derailed the Haitian Civic Organization's plans to bring the aid cargo from the Dominican Republic to Haiti, group members say. The donated goods, including medical supplies, food, water, clothing and household items, remain at the Port of Caucedo.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Thirty Gleed church members who had long planned a mission in the Dominican Republic are now scrambling to see if they can also provide medical and food relief in neighboring Haiti. We do this every year at the same time, and nothing like this has happened where there is a catastrophic event," said Jan Brazeau, a registered nurse who is leading one of two volunteer groups from Memorial Bible Church. "It could be that God has sent us there at this time on purpose.
An emergency room nurse from Chilton Memorial Hospital has traveled to Haiti to bring medical supplies and his own expertise to the earthquake-torn country. Jonathan Cotton of Kinnelon arrived Wednesday in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he loaded food onto trucks bound for Haiti for the Children's Hunger Fund.
It was while handing out food and clothing in the barrios of the Dominican Republic, thousands of miles from her family home in Rancho Palos Verdes, that 14-year-old Karin Olivo made a promise she vowed to keep. I promised to never forget them," Karin said of the underprivileged families she encountered while on the family trip. "I promised I would come back.
ThousanDs in region join in dominican vote Fears about the Dominican Republic's fragile economy and the spike in food prices there drove North Jersey residents to local polling sites Friday to help select the island nation's next president.
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