NON-PROFIT SPOTLIGHT
ELLEN GILLETTE
On flight days, volunteer Jim Carlin arrives at MFI around 5 a.m. to help
with passengers. On other days, he does whatever is needed at the facility.
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help meet physical needs, promote better farming and animal
husbandry and so on, but they also spread the Gospel of
Jesus Christ through ministry.”
Karabensh points out, “Haiti is at our back door. We are so
blessed in the United States. We can complain about things,
but most of the world doesn’t live like we do. About 80
percent of the world lives from day to day. Most Americans
don’t realize that.”
He adds some people don’t donate to relief agencies because
they are afraid of corruption or have heard stories of
food rotting in warehouses.
“We work with folks who have been there for decades,
who have necessary connections. Supplies get where they’re
meant to go,” he says.
Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, but observing
over the years, Karabensh sees economic improvement.
“The infrastructure is better. Roads are getting paved. Solar
panels are powering street lights. Advances are being made,”
he says.
ESTABLISHED CONNECTIONS
Missionary Flights International enjoys a good relationship
with Haitian airports. After the earthquake in 2010, these
connections enabled the organization to come in with tons of
supplies.
“They know we’re helping people,” Karabensh says. “We
could call them when we were about 10 minutes out and land
on the grass away from all of the congestion.”
A flight to the Dominican Republic is added on alternate
Tuesdays. In 2015, Missionary Flights International got verbal
consent from Cuba to supply missionaries there, but three >>
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