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Michigan nurse who specializes in disaster relief aides hurricane victims

Posted at 11:18 PM, Oct 18, 2017
and last updated 2017-10-18 23:23:07-04

Help is still so desperately needed for the thousands of people affected by the hurricanes that wreaked so much havoc in the states and beyond. 

I met a Michigan woman who went to an island that many people may not have heard of, until disaster hit their home.

Photojournalist Matt Horne and I jumped in a 7 Action News live truck and drove almost 100 miles to Eagle, Michigan. 

There we met Kelly Sities, a woman whose passion and compassion is precious and rare. Kelly is a disaster response nurse with Samaritan’s Purse International Relief.

“I’m not brave and I’m definitely not an adventure seeker. I just feel called to do it. I know my faith equips me to do it,” say’s Sites.

Kelly walks into the midst of the hardest hit parts of our world when natural disasters strike and war ensues. She does it with no fear.

She travels with her tools, her supplies and lots of love and compassion for her fellow man.

“They live in my heart and I feel like their lives and their stories are their suffering are with me everyday,” she says with a comforting smile. 

Kelly Sites has been a disaster response nurse for 8 years. I asked her what she’s learned in that time and she replied: perspective.