Category: Carribean
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Music Education: A Sign of Hope in Haiti
January 12, 2010, Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Port Au Prince Haiti was destroyed by an earthquake. One year later, a youth orchestra rehearses in a shelter next to the ruined sanctuary. It is a sign of hope in Haiti.
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Haiti: One Year After
The first days of 2011 find me returning to Haiti, exactly one year after the January 2010 earthquake that killed a reported 230,000 people and left tens of thousands more hurt and homeless. This trip, I will be working with a communications team from Church World Service. Church World Service works with partners in the…
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Raise Your Voice
This is a music video in support of CROP Hunger Walks. Music by singer/songwriter K.C. Clifford. Following the January 2010 earthquakes in Haiti, I recorded footage that Church World Service used in this video. I even noticed a shot that Jim Quattrocki and I recorded in Tanzania more than a decade ago. Great to see…
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Viva Rio, Help for Haiti
This is a video I shot in Port Au Prince two weeks after the January 12, 2010 earthquake. After Hurricane Tomas rolled through this November, I wonder what happened to the good folks at living in Viva Rio. Viva Rio is a Brazilian non-governmental organization working in Haiti since 2004. Viva Rio is a partner…
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Together in Mission: Haiti
There is a new Lutheran Church in Haiti. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Haiti is a growing body of believers with 12 congregations scattered across Haiti. The Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA asked me to put this video together for the 2010 Synod Assembly.
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Clearing Rubble, Redemption Lutheran, Carrefour, Haiti
Members of Redemption Lutheran Church in Carrefour, Haiti gather to clear rubble from their destroyed church building. The structure collapsed during the January 12, 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti. Fortunately, no one was in the building when it collapsed.
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Haiti Lutheran Church: New Office
It’s not all bad news coming out of Haiti. As workers put on the finishing touches, Pastor Livenson Lauvanus of the Haiti Evangelical Lutheran Church shows off their new office space in Port Au Prince. The new space will provide offices space, guest lodging, a chapel and meeting space. Funding for the rental property was…
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Religion and Ethics Weekly: Haiti
At the Haiti/Dominican Republic border, I ran into Gail Fendley a producer with Religion & Ethics Weekly on PBS. Gail and her crew were producing a story on relief work from the Dominican side of the border. We exchanged business cards and I was able to share footage I recorded in Haiti which they used…
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Haiti, Three Weeks After: Chris Herlinger Reports
My friend Chris Herlinger from Church World Service and I produced this story in Port Au Prince, Haiti, three weeks after the January 2010 earthquake. Port Au Prince, Haiti February, 2010 by Chris Herlinger In the nearly three weeks since the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake, Haiti feels like a desert bereft of much that makes…
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Wrapping Things up in Haiti
Packing up my equipment and belongings as my time in Haiti draws to a close, thoughts and emotions percolate. I was invited to come to Haiti two weeks after the January 2010 earthquake that leveled much of Port Au Prince and the surrounding countryside by the ELCA Disaster Response and the Lutheran World Federation. As…