Capponi (left) is the founder of Global Empowermwent Mission, created as a response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010. Global Empowerment Mission delivered food and water to remote communities in the hillsides near Jeremie where the eye of Hurricane Matthew passed over. Crédito: Brandon Burke/Danielle Dreis/Global Empowerment Mission
Capponi met with local officials and police to identify the communities most in need. "Monetary donations to the proper trusted and proven Haiti expert specific NGO's is going to be the quickest way of supporting this in the immediate,"he argues. "Be sure to see their financials to verify that no money is wasted on overhead and unnecessary expenses, people got burned once, never again," he adds, in reference to the 2010 earthquake response. "These pictures will attest that any proper dedicated teams can actually get to remote areas and deliver supplies within days. This needs to be a hands on approach in this current stage."
Crédito: Brandon Burke/Danielle Dreis/Global Empowerment Mission
Crédito: Brandon Burke/Danielle Dreis/Global Empowerment Mission
.... a wasteland. "I can honestly say it looks just as bad as the 2010 earthquake in some areas," said Capponi. What's much much worse, is the entire landscape, palm trees and agriculture fields are completely desolated. All the newly planted trees are mostly gone in the south west coast."
"We were fortunate to have a God-sent Caterpillar to help us get through," said Capponi. But it could take days, if not weeks to reach some areas. "We wanted to go from Jeremie to Les Anglais where there is even more catastrophic destruction but that was absolutely impossible. The next attempt was getting to Dame-Marie. That is also absolutely impossible. The roads are knee to waist high deep muddy swamps at every corner." Crédito: Brandon Burke/Danielle Dreis/Global Empowerment Mission
"We were the first and only responders to some of these remote villages outside of Jeremie. There it's not 1 out of 3 homes destroyed but 3 out of 3 homes destroyed. Many homes had so much debris in them that we would have no way of knowing how many dead people were trapped under the fallen roofs etc." Crédito: Global Empowerment Mission/Brandon Burke and Danielle Dreis