Tuesday afternoon at about 5:30 in the evening I left Columbia with 7 other men. We are part of The Foundation First Response Team. Our plan is to deliver and assemble more than 75 tents to earthquake victims in Haiti. After a long drive, we arrived in Ft. Pierce, FL around 3am. Since our flight was not scheduled to leave until 6, I pulled out my sleeping bag and caught a few short hours of sleep in the grass by the hangar. We left Florida a little after 7:30 and arrived in Port au Prince, Haiti 3 hours later. Our first stop was to the Gheskio Clinic (oldest AIDS clinic in the world) and tent city. The plan was to help relocate the people here to higher ground before the rainy season comes. They are waiting on approval from the President of Haiti for use of some federal land, which likely won’t happen while we’re here. Flexibility being key, we are now planning on teaching locals how to construct the tents and deliver them to another tent city in need. Other events of today have included some deep instant immersion in Creole. With my limited French and worse Creole, as well as some Spanish and English with the few that speak those, I’ve been pretty succesful in communicating with most of the people. We were able to give away some candy and shirts to kids in the Gheskio tent city. One miracle has apparently happened. We had to leave the airport before the cargo plane with the tents arrived. In between two stops we checked in to see if they were there yet. Most were, but some of them were missing. We weren’t shocked at this. What did shock us was after transporting them to our current location, we mysteriously have all of the ones that left Columbia. Thank you to everyone back home that is praying for us, we’ll keep you updated as much as we can. There are so many more things to tell but I don’t have time. You can get the latest updates by following me on Twitter: twiter.com/Zachpippin. Or check status updates on facebook from Wes Church. Also, I can make phone calls via Skype, bur they will appear as random numbers on your caller ID, and of course since I have Google Voice if you text 8433219224 then I will be able to read it and respond. Soli Deo Gloria
On 02.24.10, In Uncategorized, By Zach Pippin





Nice dude! stay safe bro..