When a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and approximately 1.5 million people were initially displaced from their homes.  To serve Haitian children, many of whom were orphaned after the earthquake, the Gengel family of Rutland, Massachusetts established the Be Like Brit orphanage and non-profit organization in memory of their daughter, Britney Gengel.  Britney perished in the earthquake while on a community service trip with her college classmates.