News Local relief agencies have been quick to address the recent round of natural disasters that killed hundreds and left countless others injured and homeless. Mercy Corps has been positioned for five years in Padang, a city of 900,000 in Sumatra closely located to the epicenter of the 7.6 magnitude earthquake. And the Portland-based relief agency immediately sent global emergency specialists to ...   More

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News Dr. Tom Hoggard, a Portland surgeon working in Haiti with Medical Teams International, has worked on 15 previous relief missions with the Oregon-based international relief agency. That experience with refugee camps and rescue missions has included helping in Somalia in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But Hoggard said as horrific as the devastation he has witnessed before, this most recent ...   More