John M. Ferguson is a Lifetime Board Member of The Majestic Dreams Foundation. John currently works for the U.S. Army, and has returned from deployment from Iraq. He comes from a long line of military family, in which is grandfather, Leon Jack Ferguson was a Pearl Harbor Survivor while serving aboard the USS Detroit (CL-8), and also served aboard the USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5).
John's division with The Majestic Dreams Foundation is create aide from those who have been kidnapped in the hands of terrorists as well as providing actual relief packages and drop offs to areas that have been affected by natural disasters such as the current disaster in Haiti. Instead of submitting money to reliefs in Haiti, which majority of the money sent is not reaching the Haitian people, John's team of people will personally drop off the packages of food, water, etc by coordinating with the nearest unaffected area. This in turn will provide security needed to distributed much needed supplies directly to the people.
Enclosed is an excerpt from our company.
We here at The Majestic Dreams Foundation would like to provide some sort of disaster relief service that drops food, water, and other essentials to places in need. Using experienced personnel, they will fly to the nearest unaffected area, in order to provide help to the specific affected area by coordinating with the local government by providing local resources as well as providing security for the actual food drops. They will arrive via boat or truck depending on the location coinciding with local government. For example, in Haiti, the area's around Port-Au-Prince are highly affected yet aid has been unable to reach them. The relief will be lead by my husband, John M. Ferguson, who is currently employed within the U.S Army, and has prior experience with humanitarian aid drops in Iraq.
How our relief will differ from the relief in Haiti?
Currently in Haiti, in the initial days in which were the most crucial, uncoordinated relief efforts were lead. This in turn failed to reach the Haitian people, which included doctors with no medical supplies, no tents, no food or water and massive profiteering, “We need your money not food and water,” in which sounded more like a sham considering the lack of food and water in these vital location. The lack of foresight on the initial food and water drops provide no security or a small force which can lead to riots that would vastly differ from our own.
Credit: Picture taken during his tour in Iraq in 2008
