Growing up behind walls at Mitch Albom's Haitian orphanage
Haiti's gangs have near-total control of Port-au-Prince. Bestselling author Mitch Albom runs an orphanage in the city. Children there grow up and get an education in a haven behind walls.
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First, a report on ships stranded by the Strait of Hormuz closure. Then, could lasers help fend off Iran's drones? And, a look inside author Mitch Albom's Haiti orphanage.
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In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's gang-controlled capital, there's an orphanage taking in the most at-risk kids. It's run by bestselling author Mitch Albom and his wife Janine.
Inside author Mitch Albom's Haiti orphanage
In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's gang-controlled capital, there's an orphanage taking in the most at-risk kids. It's run by bestselling author Mitch Albom and his wife Janine.
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The Democratic presidential candidates debate in New Hampshire Saturday night, but the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns have been sparring all day over a data breach; Before "Tuesdays With Morrie" made him a bestselling author, Mitch Albom actually swung and missed at a career in music.
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Before "Tuesdays With Morrie" made him a bestselling author, Mitch Albom actually swung and missed at a career in music. Now he's using that failure as inspiration for his latest book. Jim Axelrod has more.
Web extra: Mitch Albom's Haitian orphanage
After the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, author Mitch Albom helped build and expand the Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage in Port-au-Prince. Here, Albom and correspondent Nancy Giles are serenaded by the students.
When Mitch Albom found Chika
In 2010, when an earthquake devastated Haiti killing nearly a quarter-million and leaving millions more injured and homeless, author Mitch Albom ("Tuesdays With Morrie") traveled to Port-au-Prince to try to help, and found children huddling in an orphanage. And while many people say they will come back to a disaster site and never do, Albom did, time and again, bringing volunteers from Detroit who rebuilt the orphanage and built a new school. But Albom also brought back home a little girl, Chika, who helped create a family with Albom and his wife, Janine Sabino, inspiring his latest book, "Finding Chika." Nancy Giles reports.
Mitch Albom writes new story to raise money for COVID-19 relief
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Mitch Albom's mission
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