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Field Report, USA

KIRF Field Report: Thomas fire families we helped in Ventura County, California in 2017

Original date: March 4, 2018 As the flames lit up the night sky on December 4th, we watched with horror as a massive wall of red flames burned up over the ridge line above our town to the…

Angela Kirwin
March 5, 2018

Field Report, Nicaragua

Field Report: Assessing Conservation Tourism Potential in Playa Gigante, Nicaragua with Trail Mapping and a Howler Monkey Census

While we were in Playa Gigante in June this year helping out with the construction of the new Gigante Community Health Center, we wanted to see if there were any eco-tourism opportunities in town to help out the local women…

Angela Kirwin
August 28, 2013

Field Report, Nicaragua

KIRF Field Report: Gigante Community Health Center in Playa Gigante, Nicaragua

Volunteers pushing up the water tower for the Gigante Community Health Center. Photo: Angela R. Kirwin It is always amazes me how fast our summers go by. It seems like just yesterday that we were in Nicaragua working with Project…

Angela Kirwin
July 30, 2013

Field Report, Nicaragua

KIRF Field Report: Women’s Sports & Health in Playa Gigante, Nicaragua

Playa Gigante, Nicaragua We returned to Playa Gigante, Nicaragua in December, this time with our kids, to help out two local non-profits that are doing a lot to keep this part of the world beautiful and the locals healthy and…

Angela Kirwin
February 2, 2013
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Field Report, New Zealand

Field Report: KIRF’s Earthquake Relief in Christchurch, NZ

On February 22nd this year a 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand. The earthquake destroyed or rendered un-inhabitable most of the downtown commercial district in Christchurch and the neighboring harbor city of Lyttelton (where it toppled the once famous…

Angela Kirwin
April 21, 2011
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Our “KIRF Work”: Disaster relief that is small-scale but effective

Mark Kirwin driving through Port-Au-Prince. Photo: CJ Paone We started our small foundation KIRF (short for “Kirwin International Relief Foundation”) in January 2005 after we returned home after surviving the tsunami disaster in southern Thailand with our children. Since then…

Angela Kirwin
July 23, 2010

Field Report, USA

Field Report: DC Homeless Children: Helping the Homelss Children’s Playtime Project in Washington, DC for the National Day of Service

Four volunteers of the Kirwin International Relief Foundation (KIRF) headed to Washington, DC on January 16 to provide assistance for homeless children to heed President-Elect Obama’s request for Americans to do a community service project to honor the spirit of…

Angela Kirwin
February 13, 2009

Field Report, Myanmar

Field Report: KIRF getting disaster relief supplies into Burma (Myanmar)

The tragedy in Burma from Cyclone Nargis that hit on May 2nd is far worse than what we have been lead to believe. During the last few days, I have interviewed Burmese refugees and seen footage of the tragedy that…

Angela Kirwin
June 10, 2008

Field Report, Myanmar

Field Report: KIRF Assisting Karen refugees from Myanmar with medical supplies donated by Ventura dentist and others

The young Asian woman told me that the Burmese military placed land mines in her family’s rice field. So she fled with her family across the border from Burma to the Thailand border refuge camps. They had no money in…

Angela Kirwin
June 15, 2007

Field Report, Thailand

Field Report: KIRF helping children in Thailand orphaned by AIDS and the tsunami disaster

Thank you to everyone who helped with this most recent KIRF humanitarian relief trip. Our trip was a great success! During this trip KIRF help orphaned children infected with HIV/AIDS, in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. KIRF negotiated the final legal…

Angela Kirwin
February 2, 2007

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