LDS Haiti medical team finds new uses for lunch boxes

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It started as simply providing

a late-night meal to volunteer doctors and nurses headed to earthquake-damaged

Haiti. It ended up directly blessing the hurting Haitians.

Anxious to do anything to help the Haitian relief

effort, members of the Boca Raton Ward, Pompano Beach Florida LDS Stake, heard that

an 18-member LDS medical team would be passing through nearby Fort Lauderdale,

en route from Salt Lake City and catching a chartered cargo flight to the

Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince.

The team was to arrive just before 12 a.m. Monday and

leave another four hours later. Susan Puls, who coordinates medical volunteers

for the LDS Church, mentioned to ward members of the late arrival and the

anticipated quick turn-around — and how a bagged lunch might be a welcome

treat.

Members responded in kind, packing up sandwiches,

chips, fruit, nuts and candy in portable personal coolers. Alan and Christiane

Hawkshaw — self-described snowbirds who divide their time between Florida and

Hertfordshire, England — delivered the lunches and bottled water well after

midnight.

The delivery was made at a Fort Lauderdale hotel, after

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