Emergency Response
“Do You Think They’re Ok?”- Kids Recover from Superstorm Sandy
The shelter in the Atlantic City Convention Center shelter is a huge sprawling hall with a constant wave of people arriving and leaving in a regular ebb and flow each day. Some families have just arrived from other shelters, some go back to devastated houses, and some come back to stay for what might be […]
Moussa’s story
When they brought Moussa over and laid him in my arms, my heart stopped for a minute. He was barely breathing and was so frail, I was afraid he might die as I held him. Though he was more than two months old, his arms and legs were tiny and frail and his breathing was […]
PHOTOS: Hometown Heroes
How do you save the lives of children who would otherwise die of diseases like pneumonia, the number one killer of kids in the developing world? Get a hometown hero on your side. Frontline Health Workers are saving lives every single day in places like Uganda and Kenya, where I traveled just a week […]
Hunger Stalks the Children of Africa
I’m back now from my trip to Uganda and Kenya, but the images of the children there keep stealing into my thoughts. Pictures of a tiny boy, 14 months old but looking like 4 months, a fragile little girl with stick arms crying on a small cot, a mother cradling her sick 8-month-old son whose […]
Remembering 9/11
Today here in CT where I live dawned much like that morning 10 years ago which really did change all our lives forever. A clear blue sky, a crispness of fall in the morning air, a day you were happy to get up and get going. Unlike today, a Sunday, that September 11 ten […]
VIDEO: East Africa Food Crisis Field Visit
Here are some photos from my recent visit to East Africa to support our food crisis and refugee relief efforts. You’ll see me with children at a
