Food For The Poor Missions Director Hospitalized After Being Buried Alive 17 Hours Beneath Rubble

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 15, 2009) - Food For The Poor's Missions and Travel Director, Leann Chong, is recovering in a Dominican Republic hospital after being pulled from the rubble of a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday morning. Chong had lain trapped for 17 hours beneath 3-feet of concrete, chin tucked and face to the floor, since the 7.0-magnitutde earthquake hit the struggling country on Tuesday evening.

Chong was on the second floor of the Hotel Montana in Pétionville at the time of the quake. She was in Haiti leading a mission trip, which included 12 students and two faculty advisors from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla...

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Food For The Poor Missions Director Hospitalized After Being Buried Alive 17 Hours Beneath Rubble