Food Network Host and New York Based Journalist, Marlie Hall, to Travel to Haiti on Medical/Humanitarian Mission
Former WCBS-TV and Black Entertainment Television reporter and current host of Food Networks "Recipe For Success" Marlie Hall, will be traveling to Jeremie, Haiti accompanying medical personnel on a 10 day humanitarian mission beginning February 25, 2005. The mission is sponsored by the Glencoe, IL based Parish Twinning Program of America's Sacred Heart Haiti Ministry. The ministry's goal for this trip is to administer medical care and treatment to Jeremie's citizens, as well as to deliver 800-900 pounds of medical supplies. For Hall, who is of Haitian descent and whose family emigrated to the U. S. from Haiti it is a chance to focus attention not only on the ministry's work, but also on the plight of the Haitian people who have been affected by political violence and weather related devastation.
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 23, 2005
Marlie Hall, a New York based journalist and host of Food Network’s “Recipe For Success”, will be accompanying a delegation of doctors and health care professionals from the U. S. to Jeremie, Haiti from February 25 to March 5, 2005. The 10-day humanitarian mission is sponsored by The Parish Twinning Program of America’s Sacred Heart Haiti Ministry.
The Parish Twinning Program of America, based in Glencoe, Illinois and operated by Gerald Keenan, is an international organization that pairs catholic churches in the U. S. with catholic churches in impoverished nations to conduct medical missions.
Within the last year, the U. S. State Department issued a travel warning urging U. S. citizens to avoid traveling to Haiti due to the countryÂ’s volatile political situation. Aid workers from various humanitarian organizations have left the country months ago, making the people of Jeremie, one of HaitiÂ’s most isolated areas, desperately needing assistance.
The ministryÂ’s goal for this trip to rural Sassier and Voldrogue, near Jeremie, is to provide medical care and treatment for approximately 100-140 people per day and to bring 800-900 pounds of medical supplies to the area.
For Hall, a former reporter with WCBS-TV and Black Entertainment Television, who is of Haitian descent, the trip is intensely personal. HallÂ’s family emigrated from Haiti to the U. S. in the early 1970Â’s for political as well as economic reasons.
Hall said “The last time I was in Haiti was in 1987 and for me, the trip’s mission is to focus attention on the plight of the Haitian people, who have been ravaged by political violence and weather related devastation, but also on the wonderful work performed by medical professionals associated with the Sacred Heart Haiti Ministry.” Hall added that she plans to journal and document her trip on video, and will be available for interviews / photo opportunities before and after her trip to the area.
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