In partnership with Operation Blessing, Severn Trent Services donates thousands of dollars in equipment to aid OBI’s efforts to help stem cholera in Haiti as well as provide for ongoing water purification needs.

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Operation Blessing delivers supplies and provides an eye and dental clinic for a village of shepherds and farmers in the Judean Desert, where few families have access to medical care.

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In 1977, when Charles was just 5 years old, he lost his mother to a tornado that swept through the Smithfield Estates neighborhood in Birmingham, AL. Watch his story and see what was the same and different about the tornado that struck on April 27, 2011.

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Following the tsunami, the Urato Islands lost electrical power and their fishing industry was crippled. Operation Blessing delivered 20 industrial-size generators to restore electricity to the devastated islands and help families get back to work.

After fostering more than 35 children in their small home, a Virginia family receives the surprise of a lifetime when ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” builds them a new home in less than a week. Operation Blessing supported the project, providing $20,000 in lumber as well as skilled laborers and volunteer recruitment.

In a little shop on the outskirts of Bethlehem, a small team creates beautiful hand-made mosaics. What makes these pieces even more precious is the livelihood that this work brings men and women with disabilities.

Many in the city of Shiogama, Japan are still living in shelters after the earthquake and tsunami. Along with much needed relief supplies like food and kerosene, Operation Blessing brought toys for the children of the shelter to enjoy.

The Operation Blessing team continues to move north up the eastern coast of Japan distributing relief supplies to shelters that are now home to displaced tsunami survivors. Today we gained favor with the police and military, who led us to a shelter in Otsuchi where were able to bring food supplies, kerosene, and heaters to combat the harsh conditions.

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The Operation Blessing team headed northwest from Sendai to Oshu where they were able to purchase food supplies to bring back to survivors on the eastern shore of Japan. As they made their journey east to distribute rice to a shelter housing 1,000 displaced people, they were shocked when they saw the devastation in Rikuzentakata.

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A team from Operation Blessing was able to secure permission from the police to head north along the main highway toward the epicenter of the disaster with much needed food and water they were able to secure in Tokyo. The team arrived late in the night to a cold, dark, snowy city of Sendai. At daybreak, they traveled to a school in Shiogama to deliver the supplies to displaced families whose homes were destroyed.

As the true scale of this disaster unfolds, we are realizing just how important it is that the world stands with Japan and supports the relief effort. Give online bit.ly/ ih8IGo or txt BLESS to 50555 to donate $10 for Disaster Relief.