On Sunday, September 24, 2017, Operation Go Quickly (OGQ) participated in the 1st Annual Aledo Wine & Art Festival with a booth and a brief amputee soccer demonstration, both featuring Haitian artist and athlete Francillon Chery. We are grateful to Tim Goldberg, owner of the Stillwater Meadow Event Center and OGQ’s Director of Prosthetics, for […]
Dr. Fred Sorrells, Francillon Chery and Don Bristow were interviewed by Neita Fran Ward during the live radio program Art Connection on Saturday, September 9. Topics included art as a therapeutic recreation, with Francillon’s story being a great example of using painting to relieve phantom pain following amputation. This was the second time this trio […]
Operation Go Quickly is actively praying for those affected by Hurricane Harvey and is engaged in the response. We support the call to prayer for Sunday, September 3, issued by both President Trump and Texas Governor Abbott. We urge continued prayer for those affected by the hurricane and subsequent flooding and those involved in the […]
The following posted at Haiti Libre. Last Friday, Gérald Oriol Jr., Secretary of State for the Integration of People with Disabilities and Mario Florvil, Director General of the Ministry of Youth and Sports welcomed at the International Airport Toussaint Louverture the players of the Haitian amputee football selection. This selection, supervised by the Haitian Football […]
On Saturday, September 2, Operation Go Quickly Director of Water and Santitation Tom Stewart from Kingsland, Texas, distributed over 50 portable water filters donated by Texas Baptist Men to the hurricane ravaged city of Rockport. Thanks to the bucket filters those whose water wells were compromised by the storm can now safely consume their well […]
