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Though we may not feel the waves of the tsunami that hit nearly all parts of the Pacific Rim Thursday night and into Friday morning, the effect of the record 8.9 earthquake in Japan that caused it can be felt locally.
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Hundreds of volunteers showed up at the Vermeer Global Pavilion in Pella Saturday to help make the “Pella Meals from the Heartland” food-packaging event a success.
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Hundreds of volunteers showed up at the Vermeer Global Pavilion in Pella Saturday to help make the “Pella Meals from the Heartland” food-packaging event a success.
“Pella Meals from the Heartland,” a meal-packaging event to aid victims of the earthquakes in Haiti will take place Saturday, and the event is very close to reaching several goals.
The day of a meal-packaging event to aid victims of the earthquakes in Haiti is fast approaching, and volunteers are still needed for the “Pella Meals from the Heartland” event.
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A ceremony finalizing the adoption of four children from Haiti was held Wednesday afternoon at the Marion County Courthouse.
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The adoption of a Haitian girl who was rescued by her adoptive parents from Port-au-Prince, Haiti just days after this January’s devastating earthquake was recognized with a ceremony this past Wednesday.
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Volunteers are still needed for the upcoming Pella Meals from the Heartland food packaging event to aid victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
An adoption ceremony was held Wednesday morning in Knoxville for the Haitian daughter of a Pella couple who was rescued from Haiti in the days following the deadly earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince in January.
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A week after a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, five Haitian children finally found themselves in the arms of their adoptive parents last Tuesday night at the Pella Municipal Airport.
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A whirlwind seven-day span for the adopted children of three Pella families came to an emotional and exciting climax Tuesday night, ending with the five Haitian orphans getting to sleep in their new homes for the first time.
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Three families in Pella are breathing a little easier after learning that children they are adopting from an orphanage in Haiti are uninjured following last week’s deadly earthquake; but the children’s struggles aren’t over.
Three Pella families whose adopted children were still in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, when Tuesday’s earthquake struck have been told that their children are ok.
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