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Cagayan de Oro, Philippines -The massive flooding wiped out roads and bridges and claimed the lives of over 1,200 men, women and children. What was left was thousands of people with their entire lives swept away by the raging waters left to rebuild what was remaining of their past lives. On December 16th, 2011, as […]

Tuscaloosa, Alabama John Cloughen’s story “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” – Khalil Gibran Nearly everyone who was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27, 2011 has a story about the great tornado that hit that state at 5:30 p.m. The

Mentawai Islands, Indonesia The devastation from the 7.7 earthquake and the hundreds of aftershocks was bad enough, but in late October 2010, a terrifying tsunami swept through the Indonesian Mentawai Islands cutting off relief and aid to the already devastated villages. Most of the hardest hit areas were so remote that medical care and aid

With the Haiti earthquake happening in January, no one anticipated that another devastating event would occur soon after in another part of the world. But on February 27th, 2010, it did. An 8.8 magnitude quake hit, followed by several tsunamis. REACH OUT WorldWide went on its second mission just a few weeks after its first.

Haiti earthquake, January 2010 When the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit just a few miles west of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on January 12, REACH OUT WorldWide was born. After years of thinking about the idea, founding members Lucas Wimer, Paul Walker, Jesse Brisendine, Dave Marquez, Christian Urzua, John Cloughen and others were spurred to action. Jesse’s