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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Tramore’s Brian in Haiti to give hands-on help
By Marion O’Mara
HUMANITARIAN, Brian Healy, from the Cove in Tramore, is among the countless aid workers delivering assistance to the earthquake victims of Haiti.
The logistics co-ordinator with Goal in Port-au-Prince has spent a number of years traveling to various parts of the world as a volunteer. In 2005, he was in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, helping the survivors of a devastating earthquake that claimed the lives of between 75,000 and 80,000 people.
Not long after returning home to Ireland, Brian went to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to work on Goal’s street children programmes and several of its other humanitarian projects for seven months.
From there he transferred to South Sudan and over the next few years, Brian completed stints in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan for a second time.
Now, once again, Brian has responded to a plaintive cry for help from the people of a devastated, far-off region of the world.
He actually travelled to Haiti from New Zealand, having moved there with his girlfriend, and had been due to take up a post in Nairobi with Goal, but chose to divert to the scene of the earthquake instead. Having worked in some of the toughest and most heartbreaking situations around the developing world, it was only natural that he should be one of the first people that Goal asked to go to Haiti.
A committed humanitarian, who dreamt from childhood of travelling around the world to help those in greatest need and who eventually realised those childhood ambitions with GOAL, it was unthinkable that Brian would not respond positively to the request.
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