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 […]
Amputee Soccer teams from Haiti and the USA compete for the America’s Cup of Amputee Soccer in this USL Network video that highlights the action from the July 29, 2017 match.
The following article by Alexander Lee was posted at TruthNetMedia.com on August 18, 2017. The Haitian amputee arrived into Little Rock on Wednesday afternoon and visited the Boys and Girls Club. The team were introduced by non other than Operation Go Quickly President Fred Sorrells. A few of the team members then demonstrated their skill sets […]
The following article by Alexander Lee was posted at TruthNetMedia.com on August 17, 2017. Lockheed Martin Manufacturing Engineering Manager Jose Daniel randomly ran into the Haitian Amputee Soccer team in Texas while they were training for the Cup of America in Irvine, California. After witnessing their raw talent during the practice session, Jose wanted to know more […]
The following article by Alexander Lee was posted at TruthNetMedia.com on August 15, 2017. Anne Sumner, a physician for the National Institutes of Health was in Dallas, Texas on Monday for a conference held by the American Heart Association. She was notified by one of her dear friends Thomas Fetterman, founder of the Peace Tips Project that […]
Operation Go Quickly, a Fort Worth based community non-profit organization, serves people with disabilities in the less economically developed countries worldwide. Operation Go Quickly believes that a well functioning amputee soccer program can drastically change the perception of people with disabilities. The Haitian Amputee Soccer Team, ranked #7 in the world, is traveling through DFW […]
