Jamie, left, and Ali McMutrie wait in the chill of an open Corporate Air hangar at Allegheny County Airport as the plane that will take them to Haiti is loaded with supplies for their BRESMA orphanage.
Two Ben Avon sisters left for Haiti Monday — their mission, to bring home 12 stranded children from a Port-au-Prince orphanage or stay behind to watch them as their country continues to dig out from a deadly earthquake.
The orphanage, known as BRESMA, was the center of a dramatic mission led by Gov. Ed Rendell last month in the aftermath of the quake that has already created countless new orphans in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation. Fifty-four children from the damaged orphanage who had been living in precarious conditions were flown to the United States Jan. 18
Jamie and Ali McMutrie, along with Leslie McCombs and her son, Herbie, boarded a private jet Monday at 10:30 a.m. at Allegheny County Airport, bound for Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after a stopover in Opa-locka, Fla. At 4:20, Ms. McCombs, a senior consultant for government affairs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, reported back: “Just wanted to let you know we arrived safely.”…
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