Labadee, Haiti

Cruise4Haiti group arrives in Haiti

Today our Cruise4Haiti voluncruise will make our final port call in Labadee, Haiti. Royal Caribbean International’s Liberty of the Seas will arrive in Labadee around 11:00 a.m. today, November 19, 2010.

Our group consists of 31 people traveling to research outreach projects that can be developed for Airline Ambassadors. We are also delivering the holidays to Haiti through donations that have been collected and sorted onboard for distribution to orphans residing at the For Haiti With Love orphanage.  We are also delivering medical supplies to the only free burn clinic on Haiti, which is funded and staffed by For Haiti With Love.

In addition, we have raised funds to help support the ongoing humanitarian projects already established in Haiti by Airline Ambassadors and For Haiti With Love.

For more information about these two wonderful organizations, visit the Cruise4Haiti website at http://www.cruise4haiti.com/partners/non-profits/.

Due to civil unrest in Haiti, we have modified our plans for today.  Originally our group was granted permission to go off-site to do a site visit of the For Haiti With Love projects in the city of Cap-Haitien, not far from the port of Labadee.

Instead, five members of the on-ground team in Haiti will meet us in the secured area of our Royal Caribbean International beach compound.  We will have our Cruise4Haiti delegation meet with three members of the For Haiti With Love orphanage and two members of the Airline Ambassadors Haiti outreach team.

What most people might not know is that we are cruising with the Founder of Airline Ambassadors, Nancy Rivard and the Co-founder of For Haiti With Love, Eva DeHart. We have accomplished a lot in terms of gathering information about sustainable tourism through the cruise industry.  It is our goal to establish programs to help communities that are affected by tourism within the cruise industry.

Our group is really excited to “hand-off the baton” (our donations) to the on-ground team in Haiti.

More posts from Cruise4Haiti:

• St. Maarten visit to I Can Foundation orphanage
• Cruise4Haiti journal