Portfolio Category: Disaster Relief

“Asia’s Week from Hell.” That’s what the world named the week of September 27 to October 3 in 2009. In the span of a couple days, 3 countries experienced devastating natural disasters. In Samoa, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated a swath of Pacific Islands. In Sumatra, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake leveled thousands...

Richard Hotes believes that going to where you’re needed — not simply giving money to worthy causes — is the best way to help the poorest of the world’s poor. His philosophy is borne from 30 years of mission experience across the globe. Richard was on the scene in 2009 in Taiwan when Hotes Foundation...

Hotes Foundation volunteers rushed to L’Aquila, Italy, in 2009 when more than 300 people were killed, 1,500 injured and 50,000 left homeless after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. Volunteers knew a lack of food and water could result in thousands of otherwise preventable deaths. Their first mission to Italy helped supply disaster victims with those necessities,...

Between August 15 and September 7 of 2008, Haiti - the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was barraged by four different storm systems. First, came Tropical Storm Fay, then Hurricanes Hanna and Gustav. Before Haiti had even a few days to recover, a category 4 hurricane, Ike, brought a month’s worth of rain and...