By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire WASHINGTON (TEWire) – The catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 230,000 in Haiti last January, President Obama’s historic health care bill, and the deaths of civil rights stalwarts Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Dr. Ron Walters lead the list of top Black Press stories [...]

The Salvation Army of Wisconsin & Upper Michigan Disaster Services and Numana* need 4,000 volunteers to package one million meals for earthquake survivors at The Salvation Army Relief Camps in earthquake stricken Haiti. The event, supported by the Wisconsin State Fair Park, takes place on Saturday, June 26th, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and [...]

Duchie Rodgers & the Black Earth Band, K.I.C. and Mirage III will host a benefit concert to support The Salvation Army Haiti Relief Efforts on Sunday, April 18 at Gene’s Lanes & Lounge, 6135 W. Fond du Lac Avenue. Doors open at 5:00 pm. Tickets are $10.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door. For [...]

Healing, wholeness, and hope update Six weeks after the earthquake, The Salvation Army continues to serve thousands of disaster survivors on-theground in Port Au Prince and elsewhere. The Salvation Army is working closely with multiple corporate partners and non-governmental organizations to provide food, water, medicine, shelter, and other immediate aid. While still meeting immediate needs, [...]

One-day trip to assess ongoing humanitarian efforts Washington, DC – U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) travelled to Haiti last week as part of a five member bipartisan Congressional Delegation to review and assess ongoing humanitarian assistance following last month’s devastating earthquake centered near the nation’s capitol Port-au-Prince. Congresswoman Moore said, “This is an opportunity to [...]

By Donald Sykes, president/CEO Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board, Inc. The recent and unfortunate events of Haiti have captured our attention in the past weeks. It has also provided for refl ection as I think about our immediate community. Economically, Haiti is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the Americas. The average [...]

Man who survives 28 days in rubble brought to Salvation Army clinic for help Salvation Army personnel provided initial triage to the latest survivor of the Haitian earthquake. Evan Ocinia, a 28 year old man, was brought to The Army’s clinic in the Delmas 2 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince after being miraculously pulled from the rubble [...]

By Kam Williams In the wake of the Haitian earthquake, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien rushed to the region to deliver the same sort of high-quality, eyewitness coverage that she has dependably broadcast in the past on location after location from such disaster areas as the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. Because of her seemingly effortless [...]

The coastal community of Petit Goave (Little Gulf) on the north coast of the Haiti peninsular will be the next community to benefit from Salvation Army Earthquake relief efforts. Major Emmanuel Michaud and Captain Serge Lainne, Haitian born Salvation Army Officers serving in Chicago, IL and Miami, FL respectively did an assessment yesterday to determine [...]

The Salvation Army is in the midst of its largest International relief effort since the Tsunami in 2005. More than 700 officers and staff permanently stationed in Haiti are responding to the needs of the people there. Dozens of Salvation Army disaster response workers and medical teams from the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and other [...]