Category Archives: Disaster Relief

Boots on the Ground: A Look Back at the Hotes Foundation’s Rebuilding of Katrina’s “Ground Zero”

Whole city blocks were missing, houses torn off their foundations and dropped in roadways, the entire city of Waveland, Mississippi—gone. Ten years ago this week Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, and just days later 50 Hotes Foundation volunteers were there. What greeted the volunteers wasn’t only incredible destruction, the carnage of a whole city...

Red Cross Haiti Relief Scandal

RED CROSS BLASTED OVER FALSE HAITI RELIEF CLAIMS Check out this article from ProPublica and NPR lambasting the ‪Red Cross‬ for utterly false claims about the aid and home building they claim to have done after the earthquake in ‪Haiti‬ in 2010. This is a must read. The Red Cross fatuously claims they provided homes to more...

Warm Reception From Villagers in Nepal

The warm smiles and hugs of these Nepalese mountain people and especially of the children feel like God, Himself is hugging us and smiling down upon us. It's an unfair bargain in which we are the greater beneficiary. We thank the villagers of ‪‎Nepal‬ for their warm reception of us in times which are so...

Hotes Foundation Distributes Non-Perishables to Remote Nepalese Villages

After surviving ‪‎Nepal‬'s second major quake, the Hotes Foundation Team got right back to the business of rushing to buy food and other items from small corner shops that were still open in ‪‎Kathmandu‬. We had previously identified 66 villages with no significant help. We chose to help the village that was the most devastated, most...