Bermuda-based broker Wesly Guiteau rushed back to his homeland of Haiti to help with relief efforts after it was hit by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake on January 12.

He has since found his missing brother, evacuated survivors from the devastated capital to his home city of Lascahobas and helped save the life of a man buried under rubble for six hours.

The 39-year-old Pembroke father-of-two arrived back here on Sunday and is now preparing for a return trip. Here are his most recent dispatches.

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From: Wesly Guiteau

Sent: January 21, 2010

Trip to Dominican Republic (DR) today was successful. We were able to purchase items including rice, beans, soap, toothpaste, toilet roll and sugar.

I've just arrived back in Lascahobas from DR — I am tired because the road to DR is atrocious!

Tomorrow we have a funeral in town for one of the earthquake victims. A childhood friend, actually, who died after being buried alive for three days. His older brother spent the entire three days digging with his bare hands to free him until he heard no more noises and he stopped responding.

After the funeral, we will be headed to Port-au-Prince (PAP) for delivery of goods and supplies. We have enough goods for several stops through the city and to also take care of the refugees in Lascahobas who are growing rapidly.

Those in Lascahobas are placed with various families, so they have the bare necessities and are coping. However, several of those families were very poor before all of this happened, so they need our assistance.

Tomorrow I will ask the mayor's office for a full report of those here that we have already provided assistance to.

That's it for now. Until tomorrow.

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From: Wesly Guiteau

Sent: January 22, 2010

I met with my brother today at Park du Souvenir (a private cemetery) where he was in charge of the funeral for the leading pastor of his mission who died during the earthquake.

From there, we were accompanied to the seminary's campus, where we met several thousand refugees. The camp was well organised with a committee in charge. The refugees consisted of people from all walks of life (educators, religious people, street merchants, neighbours etc).

We did not have to distribute the food ourselves but simply gave the supplies in bulk to the committee. We provided them with seven bags of rice, two bags of bean, one bag of sugar, ten big cases of pasta, two boxes of toothpaste, six boxes of cooking oil, soap and toilet paper.

Note I did not mention drinking water. This is the best part (the kind of story you may not see on CNN). When we started to unload the cases of water, the gentleman in charge stopped us to say that they had received a truckload of bottled water and that they are OK for a few days and that we should give the water to a different camp where the need is greater — bravo!

As suggested, we took all the water and the remaining goods to a different camp. There the atmosphere was a bit different — their committee was not as organised, but the people waited patiently in line as we delivered supplies to the committee in charge.

We then made our third stop at another camp (all within a five kilometre radius) and dropped off the rest of the food to a well organised committee and headed home.

Since we've started our efforts, we have served seven camps and positively affected the lives of thousands, all without a single incident other than a little push/shoving here and there.

Another fact I learned today (through one of the police officers accompanying us to PAP) is that the majority of the casualties of the quake are women. One reason is that there is a huge following of a soap opera in PAP every day between 4 and 6 p.m. and as you recall the quake came at around 5 p.m.

It is also a cultural thing that most men tend to be working, wander the streets if they don't have jobs, pick up their kids from school etc., thus do not spend as much time as women indoors. Tomorrow, I am heading to DR (another five-hour trip to Santo Domingo) for my flight back to Bermuda.