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Los Angeles Times Opinion Patt Morrison Asks “Richard M. Walden, Operation USA’s charity buccaneer”   Almost 35 years ago, he and a friend rounded up six tons of relief supplies and a jet to ferry them to Vietnamese boat people in Malaysia. And he’s still soldiering on.   Read full article at the Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 30, 2012)—Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced today that it is providing emergency aid where needed across the Eastern Seaboard in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.   The storm, which has left millions of people without power and caused flooding through a wide swath of the nation’s most populous

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 27, 2012)—Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced today that it will provide emergency aid to Cuba and Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.   While Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas took direct hits from the storm, the majority of deaths and most extensive damage was in impoverished Haiti,

OFUNATO, IWATE, JAPAN – October 24, 2012 – Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and Operation USA announced today that they will begin construction on an elder care community center, the Honeywell Ibasho House, in Ofunato, Iwate, to provide support for residents affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.   The Honeywell Humanitarian Relief Fund, a

LOS ANGELES, CA (September 5, 2012)—Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced today that it will provide emergency aid to Costa Rica as necessary following a 7.6 earthquake that struck this morning. The quake was the largest earthquake in the region in 50 years—and also affected Panama and Nicaragua. The quake was centered 38

LOS ANGELES, CA (August 29, 2012)—Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced today that it will provide emergency aid to the New Orleans area and the Mississippi Gulf Coast as part of relief efforts responding to Hurricane Isaac, which made landfall yesterday and continues to bring torrential rain. The Category 1 hurricane is causing

LOS ANGELES, CA (August 25, 2012)—Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced today that it will send emergency aid to Haiti as necessary as part of relief efforts responding to Hurricane Isaac, which made landfall yesterday and continues to bring torrential rain. The hurricane caused widespread flooding and at least 3 deaths to the

The massive earthquake on January 12, 2010 brought unprecedented devastation to the island nation of Haiti. While the world’s attention focused on the extensive damage done in Port-au-Prince, a catastrophe of equal magnitude unfolded on Haiti’s southern coast in the city of Jacmel. As many as 70% of Jacmel’s homes were damaged or destroyed. Operation

Operation USA is assessing whether emergency international relief assistance is needed in Aceh, Indonesia after a pair of huge earthquakes offshore.    A powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, sending people scurrying from buildings as far away as southern India, but there seemed little risk of