On February 22, the Louisiana-Haiti Sustainable Village Project sent a barge filled with earthquake relief supplies bound for the Port of Jacmel on the south coast of Haiti.  With the help of local residents and volunteers, 100,000 total cubic tons of supplies donated to the Louisiana-Haiti Sustainable Village Project’s warehouse in Elmwood, Louisiana were sorted [...]

Founded in 1971 by a French group of doctors and journalists, Doctors Without Borders is a leading nonprofit organization in providing urgent medical care internationally at no cost to patients in need.  Doctors Without Borders works to provide relief where shortages of medical care exist due to natural disasters, widespread plague, military conflict or exclusion [...]

One month ago today, the severely impoverished nation of Haiti was devastated by an unprecedented magnitude 7.0 earthquake, and more than 50 powerful aftershocks, crippling infrastructure and leaving more than 230,000 dead, 300,000 injured, and one million of the population homeless.  Along with a considerable volume of other nonprofit philanthropic organizations, the American Red Cross [...]