Seattle hardcore band Safe and Sound is a band with heart. They had a record release benefit show on the 4th of March which raised $800 for One Hundred For Haiti. Jim Williams had a chance to ask them a few questions recently about their thoughts leading up to the show. See the FACEBOOK EVENT […]
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Our friends Kevin Diers and Ian Reas, hosts of METALSHOP on KISW 99.9FM in Seattle had Greg on last night to talk about One Hundred For Haiti and other craziness. You can hear the interview here: KISW METALSHOP interviews Greg Bennick about One Hundred For Haiti
Hear a new interview with Gwen (Purses For Haiti) and Greg on Life Mastery Radio. You can listen to the full interview here: LIFE MASTERY RADIO LINK LIFE MASTER RADIO ITUNES LINK LIFE MASTERY STITCHER MOBILE APP LINK http://feeds.feedburner.com/lifemasteryradio Gwen Whipple retired last year but decided to stay busy. The Seattle resident has a love […]
In this video, recorded just before the 6th anniversary of the earthquake, One Hundred For Haiti’s executive director and founder Greg Bennick takes some time to explain the difference between RELIEF and DEVELOPMENT. This video explains the core of what the work is that we do in Haiti and WHY we do it. With our […]
As the year comes to a close, we reflect on what we’ve accomplished: a trip to Haiti led to us taking on a water project which now is a much-expanded Rural Water Project from our friends at Peacework Medical, who had decided to stop working in Haiti. And this was the year that we funded […]
In Haiti, lack of education is a huge issue. Social norms lead people to violent behavior – as they do worldwide – but here it often is found that lack of education prevents those who have been the victims of physical violence from speaking out for themselves. In the last year and a half the […]
As of this week, construction is underway on multiple tanks in The Rural Water Project. The project, which focuses on empowering and enabling local rural Haitians to control their own health and safety in regards to clean water, has begun in full swing. There are, and will be, a total of forty tanks serving forty […]
We have arrived at the beginning. When One Hundred For Haiti started in the spring of 2010, we had the goal of affecting the lives of as many people as we could, through what at first were relief efforts, and then development projects, and then much later, major initiatives. It took five and a half […]
NPR ran a story yesterday about the recent spike in cholera cases in Haiti. This was a follow up to their story last week about cholera being on the rise. Then today, a major story on ProPublica broke about the Red Cross wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in Haiti since the quake. Countless people […]
I am just back from Haiti, where we set up plans for building, maintaining, and repairing forty rural water tanks to prevent deaths from cholera-infected water. The idea, and it is working effectively, is to capture natural spring water (which potentially has cholera in it after any disruption to the water table by hurricanes or […]