Service members from the headquarters element of Joint Task Force-Haiti made a visit May 8 to the Foyer L’escale Orphanage in Port-au-Prince to deliver clothing and toys to Haitian children who would have otherwise gone without. Most of the children at the orphanage were left parentless after the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti.
Senior Chief Petty Officer Ralph Johnson, non-commissioned officer in charge of the Deployable Joint Command and Control system, organized the visit to the orphanage. He started looking for ways to help after he was impacted by an encounter with a child shortly after arriving to Haiti in January.
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