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ABC Companies joined with its employees and business partners to raise $10,730 for earthquake relief in Haiti through the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which gives 100 percent of donations to charities on the ground in Haiti—and partnered with a private bus operator and a charity organization to transport medical professionals and supplies to the island nation.

Michele Boston, executive director of No Time for Poverty, a foundation based in St. Paul, MN, explained that a chance meeting with Tom DeMatteo, ABC senior vice president and general counsel, literally put the wheels in motion to help mobilize her team after a connecting flight was canceled in Florida.

No Time for Poverty had organized a team of 25 surgeons, doctors, nurses, anesthetists, and emergency medical technicians to fly from Fort Pierce, FL, to Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake. The medical team and more than 2,000 pounds of medical supplies were stranded in Miami, however, when their flight to Fort Pierce was canceled at the last minute.

DeMatteo worked with Jim Morrison, vice president of sales for ABC Companies, to arrange transportation to Fort Pierce with Endeavor Bus Company, a motorcoach tour and sightseeing operator in Miami. Endeavor donated the use of a bus and a driver.

Representatives of No Time for Poverty and its medical team pose in front of the bus, provided by ABC Companies and a tour operator, that transported them to the Fort Pierce, FL, airport en route to Haiti.

 

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