Haiti bound: ‘I’ll see the best and worst’
By Wanda Combs
Published: March 4, 2010
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by Colleen Redman

Asa Pickford was laid-off and snowed-in when he made the decision to join up with an international disaster relief organization bringing aid to victims of January’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. “I was ready to help and I had the skills,” said the Floyd Countian.
Pickford, who is a metal fabricator, pipe welder, and blacksmith, learned about the Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (AMURT) from his friend Aaron Staengl. Staengl is a member of Ananda Marga, a social and spiritual movement based in India that focuses on personal development through meditation and yoga and emphasizes service to others. For decades AMURT has been assisting underprivileged people all over the world to become more self-sufficient in the basic necessities of life: food and water, education, shelter, and healthcare. “They were already in Haiti before the earthquake,” Pickford said.

Sisters and brothers, Global Volunteer Network, documentary TV
of AMURT in action in HAITI, Clip is first hand eye opener. Ragu Das

Dear friends and news folks,
This clip is a documentary created by Larry Pomilio of the Global Volunteer Network. Their team stayed with AMURT for several days to do an assessment of the needs in Haiti and how they could best dovetail their 3000 volunteers into the efforts of AMURT and others. The film was done as I and others were showing them around places in Port au Prince to give them a handle on what they could do and what the conditions were like, and are result of Larry's editing of about an hour of footage, and 1 1/2 days of filming our activities. He has asked me to distribute it, and I encourage you to redistribute to those that you feel appropriate. Feel free to contact him as well.

Best wishes, and Namaskar, (Salutations), Pashupati Steve Landau MD