Just over a year after bringing two new members into the family, Dave and Andrea Vanderhoff of Pella say everything has gone more smoothly than they could have hoped after adopting a brother and sister from Haiti.
A small group of students from Central College has spent the past week-and-a-half working with United Christians International in Pella’s sister city in Hait.
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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 for the Haitian daughter of a Pella couple who was rescued from Haiti in the days following the deadly earthquake in January.
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.