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 Sunday, June 27th from 11: 00 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Wisconsin State Fair Park in the Wisconsin Products Pavilion, 640 S. 84th Street, West Allis. Enter at Gate 5.
The Salvation Army feeds at least …

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 tickets call 414-698-9298.
“We’re happy and excited to spearhead this local effort to benefit the families in Haiti and support the work of The Salvation Army in Haiti. All proceeds will benefit The Salvation Army Haiti …

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, the service is being to move from emergency to sustainable recovery efforts. These solutions include: repair/reestablish local water sources; provide water filtration capacity; provide assistance to local population to rebuild permanent, more earthquake resistant housing; and …

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 see relief efforts firsthand and assess what else can be done. It will also help us determine how to provide the most effective aid to the Haitian people in their recovery. Even during the toughest of times …

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 income for an individual in Haiti is less than $2 a day.
Although Haiti is a far cry from the life we live in Milwaukee, some comparisons can be made to what happens when the infrastructure of a …

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 in the Lionshead marketplace on the morning of February 8th — 28 days after the earthquake that destroyed nearly the entire country. Two men digging thorough the rubble heard Evans calling out to them. They pulled …

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 style and her People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People List looks, what tends to get lost about this intrepid, Emmy-winning reporter is that she’s also a Harvard grad with a keen intellect, a razor sharp wit, …

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 post Earthquake circumstances of this community where a Salvation Army Corps and School is presently located.
In describing what he saw in Petit Goave Major Michaud said, “Getting there will be ragged and rugged because the …

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 countries have been sent to Haiti and are administering aid.
The Salvation Army has established a supply line from south Florida to Port au Prince to deliver aid and supplies to its disaster response teams, including more than …

By Benjamin Todd Jealous
President and CEO
NAACP
Dr. Martin Luther King was a moral giant and cherished hero of the world – a tireless champion of the poor and oppressed against the powerful. He understood the inescapable mutability of our fates and entreated the nation to embrace peace, justice and equality. He called on us to love humanity and one another and to fight for a just society.
This year our celebration of Dr. King’s legacy has taken a solemn tone, as the unimaginable tragedy that has struck our brothers and sisters in …