Matt Ray

By Matt Ray

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Matt Ray is a volunteer with Healing Hands for Haiti.

By Matt Ray
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Matt Ray is a volunteer with Healing Hands for Haiti.

Matt RayHealing Hands for Haiti

Matt Ray, a team leader from Bakersfield, Calif., and BYU alumni, has been with the organization for four years.Ray served a mission in Haiti as well and had been looking for an organization to go to Haiti with.

"I wanted to do something for Haiti rather than just go and have fun," Ray said.After his first trip, Ray organized a team of his own with 17 occupational therapists and support members from California, Oregon and Canada.

Each trip consists of 15 to 30 people, and the group is now sending ten trips a year.Ray said this means a minimum of 180 people are going to Haiti.

The organization was just given a $2 million complex from a benefactor.

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Team leader Matt Ray, 37, of Bakersfield, first traveled to Haiti as a Mormon missionary when he was 19.He said since then he always had a desire to return.He since became involved in Healing Hands, a nonprofit group that works with churches of various denominations and public and private agencies.Ray now serves on the board of directors.

This will be Ray's third trip to Haiti with Healing Hands.

"I just had a huge desire to go back to Haiti because I love the Haitian people," Ray said.