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El Salvador Earthquake Relief
A Light Touch
It was service with a smile Tuesday morning for the volunteers
of Cheer Up Missions, a nonprofit Christian-based group that uses a clown
ministry to help with disaster relief efforts. Volunteers packed one of
two 40-foot-long container shipments of wheelchairs, medical supplies
and mattresses for earthquake victims in El Salvador. The group constantly
collects donations from local businesses, hospitals and individuals and
arranges for their donation and transport to countries needing help.
Volunteers from Cheer Up Missions, a nonprofit
ministry that uses "humor therapy" with clowns and targets
its help to people in disaster areas, worked Tuesday morning at
Priority One Ambulance in Gretna packing a 40-foot container of
medical supplies, mattresses, wheelchairs and other items to be
sent to earthquake victims in El Salvador. It is one of two containers
they are sending. Chiquita donated a truck for the pickup and is
shipping the containers for free to Guatemala. Transport to El Salvador
also has been covered by different individuals. |
Robert Haskell works on matching wheelchair legs
with chairs for the shipment. In the past two years, Cheer Up Missions
has distributed more than 200 wheelchairs to needy individuals.
About 120 wheelchairs were collected in their last pickup and about
half were being shipped to El Salvador.
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The Time-Picayune, February 7,2001
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