Charity Producing Chlorine Around The Clock To Help Avert Cholera Outbreak

Port au Prince, Haiti (October 24, 2012) – With Tropical Storm Sandy expected to bring flooding rains to Haiti, the American humanitarian organization Operation Blessing International (OBI) has ramped up efforts to avert another cholera outbreak.

Haiti is currently home to the world's largest cholera epidemic, which has claimed over 7,000 lives in 24 months.

Devastation Much Worse Than Expected In Rural Areas-

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (March 27, 2012) - A disaster relief team from the humanitarian organization Operation Blessing International has arrived at the epicenter of last week's 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico and was surprised to find much worse devastation in rural areas than expected.

Scott Hill, director of the charity's OB Mexico office, reports that many of the homes in the countryside are made of adobe and were destroyed by the quake, leaving residents to fend for themselves outside.

Custom Made Boats, Built by Maine Company, to be Presented on March 10 in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (February 27, 2012) – Operation Blessing International (OBI) and multinational software company, SAP, will present 10 new fishing boats to Japanese fishermen whose livelihoods were ruined in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

-- Operation Blessing International still present, while many others have left --

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (January 10, 2012) - On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter less than 20 miles from Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, killed an estimated 316,000, injured a million, made homeless 1.5 million to 1.8 million, and either collapsed or severely damaged an estimated quarter-million commercial buildings and residences. Some 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater were recorded within 12 days following the initial quake.

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (Sept. 1, 2011) - Japanese fishermen whose way-of-life was severely impacted following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, are getting help from the American humanitarian organization, Operation Blessing International (OBI), who will deliver 40 fishing boats to local fishermen in Hikado Fishing Harbor (Kessenuma, Japan) who have been out of work since the disaster.

The boat delivery is the first of what could be a donation of hundreds of boats by OBI in the coming weeks to several months.

Posted: July 6, 2011 By: Holly Drake

NEW DELHI, India – It wasn’t the first time Hlawin had known fear in her life.

The young mother had once fled Burma seeking safety from the Burmese army that threatened harm against her community because they were of an ethnic minority.

But this was a different kind of fear—this time she feared for the wellbeing of her child. One-year-old Nehemiah was sick.

Volunteers Needed For Cleanup Efforts Beginning Friday

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (May 27, 2011) - The Virginia Beach-based humanitarian organization Operation Blessing International (OBI) has arrived in Joplin, MO for tornado relief efforts. Bill Horan, president of Operation Blessing International, made the announcement today.

Leesburg, Florida Company, PowerTech, Manufacturing Generators; Will Ship From Orlando To Japan On Friday, April 8

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (April 6, 2011) The international humanitarian organization Operation Blessing International (OBI) has purchased 20 industrial-grade electrical generators from Leesburg, Florida-based PowerTech Generators that will ship from Orlando to Japan this Friday, April 8, 2011.

By: Bill Horan

Report from the field: OBI teams share their firsthand, eye-witness accounts of the relief efforts in Japan

URATO ISLANDS, Japan – Shiogama is known as the Tuna Capital of Japan and the center of a huge fishing industry. There are tuna statues and art work depicting tuna everywhere. The oceanfront was decimated by the tsunami, but much of the wave's velocity struck four islands just off shore.

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