Rebuild Haiti, recharge Montana – Wood For Haiti

In the summer of 2010, half a year after the island nation of Haiti suffered a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left 1.2 million people homeless, University of Montana choral professor Gary Funk gazed out on a beetle-kill stretch of the Helena National Forest and an idea took root in his mind. He’d already helped raise roughly $10,000 to help Haitian doctor Patrick Jeudy build one new hospital in Jeudy’s devastated country.

"We could build the entire country of Haiti," Funk remembers thinking, "if we could get to this wood."

Wood For Haiti http://woodforhaiti.org/

by Alex Sakariassen

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