Wyclef Jean, co-founder of Yéle Haiti, was at the Penn Station Kmart this afternoon to help bring much needed joy to three young Haitian amputees on their trip to the States to get urgently needed artificial limbs. Kmart has graciously donated shopping sprees for the three girls and their hosts, valued at $3,000.
Yéle Haiti worked with the Global Medical Relief Fund (GMRF) to provide eight round-trip tickets from their partner Delta Airlines—which included tickets for GMRF staff and the patients’ relatives—between Port-au-Prince and the GMRF’s headquarters in Staten Island, N.Y. The group will then travel to Philadelphia tomorrow, where the three patients will be treated at Shriners Hospitals for Children, which will be providing the care for free.
