Rockland outreach for Haiti
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- December
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The Rockland Haitian relief task force last month spent eight days on a relief mission to deliver $30,000 worth of medicine, food, clothing and other basic emergency supplies to the storm-ravaged Caribbean nation.
Renold Julien, who helped lead the effort, said the trip to Haiti was a personal sacrifice for each of the 10 members who went.
“We didn’t do it for name recognition; it was the right thing to do,” he said. “People were suffering. People were in need, therefore we put 150 percent of ourselves behind the project. We used our own money to pay for tickets … this is a project that cost all of us a lot of money to do, but we wanted to do it.”
The group is already planning a range of other aid initiatives beginning next month, including a fundraiser and a training mission to Haiti.
Items delivered during last month’s trip included 20,000 pounds of rice, 450 boxes of clothing and canned food, medicine, as well as stretchers and wheelchairs.
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on Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 at 3:07 pm by Suzan Clarke. 
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