When disaster strikes, Operation Blessing swoops in
The founder Televangelist Pat Robertson started the charity in 1978 and hired Bill Horan to lead it in 2002.The mission To quickly supply clean water, food and medicine to needy people in the United States and around the world.
The finances It is the sixth-largest international charity in the United States, with annual revenue of $473 million.
The philosophy Operation Blessing is a Christian charity that acts as a conduit between donors and recipients of supplies.
The mission in Haiti Cholera ward
Operation Blessing helped build the ward with a $100,000 donation and brought in a chlorine generator to produce bleach, which is used to kill the bacteria and stop the spread of the disease.
Fisheries
Operation Blessing has worked to develop several programs around the country in which Haitians can raise fish – both as a source of food and a source of income.
Children’s home
In partnership with another group, Operation Blessing opened a home for orphans and developmentally delayed children after the January 2010 earthquake that left tens of thousands of Haitians dead.
The Operation Blessing truck groaned up a steep hill into a shanty town. Haitians carrying plastic buckets hurried out of tarp and tin shacks and surrounded the dusty truck as it hissed to a stop.
Bill Horan was watching the delivery on this late September day. He rattled off the truck’s superior qualities.
“It’s got three axles, not two!” he yelled over the growling diesel engine. “It carries 4,000 gallons of water, not 3,000! It takes a real truck driver to drive it!”
Horan wore his standard uniform: a perfectly pressed yellow safari shirt embroidered with “Operation Blessing,” khakis and lightweight hiking boots. A BlackBerry and a cellphone hung from his belt.
Christian broadcaster and businessman Pat Robertson, Operation Blessing’s founder, hired Horan in 2002 to run Operation Blessing, the Virginia Beach-based humanitarian group. Founded in 1978 to help needy people, the group originally distributed food and clothing and was known locally for its annual holiday dinner for the poor.
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