Disaster Archives - Tim Frakes Productions

Anna Hauge, Gifts of Grace

timfrakes — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:40:39 +0000

Here is a story I produced for Lutheran Life Communities Foundation. Anna Hauge was a Navy nurse on board the USS Tranquility, the hospital ship that rescued the survivors of the USS Indianapolis disaster in August, 1945. Anna is one of those unsung heroes who lived through an epic chapter in American history.

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Hope for Haiti: Blankets+ in Action

timfrakes — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:26:08 +0000

In January 2011, Church World Service asked me to go back to Haiti to record stories about their blanket and food coop programs. It was a wonderful trip full of positive stories and hopeful signs. Here is the video the folks in Elkhart, Indiana put together with the footage we recorded.

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Reporting from a Farming Co-op in Northern Haiti

timfrakes — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:10:43 +0000

Church World Service and Odyssey Networks in New York asked me to record a greeting while in Haiti, January 3-9, 2011 to mark the one year anniversary of the earthquake. This report was recorded in a tiny village called Mayombe in Northern Haiti.

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Haiti One Year Later

timfrakes — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:28:18 +0000

One year after the January 12, 2010 earthquake, Haiti struggles to rebuild. Yet, signs of hope emerge through sustainable development and rural agricultural co-operateves. Chris Herlinger, Church World Service, reports from Haiti.

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Rebuilt Homes for Haiti’s Disabled

timfrakes — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:41:32 +0000

James Mwangi is a building engineer volunteering with the Mennonite Central Committee, a partner of Church World Service in Haiti. Mwangi is part of a team that assesses damage and helps to rebuild the homes of Haiti’s dissabled.

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Rebuilt Homes for Haiti’s Dissabled

timfrakes — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:40:36 +0000

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Music Education: A Sign of Hope in Haiti

timfrakes — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:43:43 +0000

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

timfrakes — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:36:36 +0000

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 U.S. and around the world to build interfaith and intercultural coalitions to eradicate hunger and poverty and promote peace and justice.

We plan to record footage for videos relating to sustainable development. It is a great honor to be asked to be part of this team. I believe that finding ways to address Haiti’s immediate and long term needs is important work.

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Raise Your Voice

timfrakes — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:44:21 +0000

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 this stuff put to good use!

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Viva Rio, Help for Haiti

timfrakes — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:15:56 +0000

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 with Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the Act Alliance. Following the January 2010 earthquake in Port Au Prince, Viva Rio organized an emergency shelter community providing tents, water, social services and sanitation.

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