RIVERDALE — A Riverdale veterans organization is reaching beyond its typical duties to help an orphan ministry more than 1,000 miles away in Haiti.
Black Veterans Helping Veterans first learned of Love Him Love Them when their traveling choir of orphans was stranded in south Florida during Hurricane Matthew. The choir had just ended their three-month Southeast tour and was planning to fly back to Haiti on Oct. 3 when the storm hit.
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