Councilman Cabrera Delivers Aid to Haiti
February 5, 2010
After returning from Haiti on a brief aid mission, Councilman Fernando Cabrera, his voice hoarse from sickness and exhaustion, described some of the horrific scenes he encountered in the days after an earthquake ravaged the area around the Caribbean nation’s capital.
“It was like if you walked down Broadway and every other building or more were completely destroyed,” he said.
“It was horrible,” he said. “I saw dead people. One house was crushed. There was a girl, you could tell she almost made it out because her hand was sticking out.”
Cabrera, his daughter and about a dozen members of the Latin African-American Chaplain Association (LACA), flew a few thousand dollars worth of supplies — antibiotics, bandages, water purification tablets, baby food and more – to the Dominican Republican on Jan. 18, six days after the quake. They then drove the load into Port-au-Prince.
Cabrera raised money through donations from his church, New Life Outreach International.
Fritz Jean, Mount Hope Housing Company’s CEO, and a first-generation Haitian, was among those who helped organize the trip.
-ALEX KRATZ
A version of this article first appeared in the Norwood News.
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