It has been a while since I have written a blog. To be honest, I had lost my appetite for it. It’s tough to admit but my motivation was and has been so challenged as of late. Haiti. I despair that it’ll never catch a break. The lack of political stability there, although not making […]
So my four year-old son, Mark, asks in the car last week, “how do people know where they are going?” We tried to explain that there are maps, and he says: “no, how do they know where they are going?” We try to explain there are schedules, and he says: “no, how do they know […]
Dr. Allison Furey is one of the original members of Team Broken Earth. Our trip to Haiti, 21 weeks after the earthquake, changed our lives. We left behind two young children (at the time), with a backpack full of DEET, mosquito nets and some Cliff bars, to help during a time of disaster to a nation […]
Brad Moss is currently on the ground in Haiti with our NL team on their latest medical mission. “We’re just happy to be here.” These words were spoken by the men of NASA in response to a question by the US media about being chosen as participants in the 1960s Mercury project. Now those words apply to me. As […]
Thank God things slowed down a little yesterday, but I guess that is all relative. Emotions were running high after the first two days, so it was a timely reprieve. I often get asked, are you exhausted? Today, I did. For the first time in a long time, I felt completely tired. As I was […]
This ritual is second nature. It starts at 2 am Newfoundland time. 32 people get out of bed and tiredly make their way to the airport in the middle of a chilly Fall night. Add to that the fact that they’re giving their vacation time for this. Time away from their families too. Makes me […]
These last weeks the world has been focused on the Syrian refugee crisis. It always seemed distant. An European problem. Out of our reach. Maybe out of our heads as soon as the news ends. That all changed with one photo. Frightfully simple in pose. Gruesome. Scarring and complicated in content. A rescue worker carrying […]
Special guest blog by Dr. Nikhil Joshi, currently on the ground in Nepal for Team Broken Earth. I’m in a car on the way to the Prime Ministers’ Residence. I look out the window and consider everything that has happened so far. What started as a scouting mission for long term opportunities to help has […]