Law student Kennedy Granger credits the benevolence of friends and strangers for being able to do what many parents take for granted -- reaching out and touching their children. Her world shattered Jan. 12 after she heard that a massive earthquake struck Haiti, where her three adopted daughters lived. Granger, 26, was frantic without word if her daughters were alive and didn't have any way to get to Haiti to search for them. But the community at St. Mary's University here, where Granger is enrolled in law school, rallied around Granger, a native of Haiti, once they learned of her plight. They provided contacts and donations that led to a harrowing, three-day journey to find her girls Angel, 16, Fafane, 13 and Bianca, 11. With the aid of fellow law student Justin Yarborough, they encountered a cast of unlikely supporters from Florida to the Dominican Republic that helped reunite the grief-stricken mother with her children. Granger and her daughters arrived in San Antonio Thursday where they were happily greeted by her husband Robert and their friends. On Friday, as her girls lay on couches at the St. Mary's Law School, noticeably tired from their ordeal and several sleepless nights, Granger reflected on her journey to get her girls. Although Granger has been in San Antonio for four years, she had been unable to secure all the documents needed to bring her daughters to the U.S. She said her daughters were lucky, receiving only cuts and bruises when their home crumbled around them. 'They're smiling, they're happy to be here,' Granger said. Granger's story was played out on an eight-minute segment Wednesday on CNN's 'The Situation Room' with Wolf Blitzer. It started with a text message from a friend: 'big earthquake in Haiti, make sure the girls are okay.' Granger called her daughters all night, with no response. She said the decision was never about whether she should go, but when she could go. Flights to Haiti were grounded, but she was able to book a flight on Spirit Airlines from Florida to the Dominican Republic. A mutual friend, Alex Salazar, told her to talk to Yarborough, a 29-year-old lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve who had access to briefings and intelligence reports from the federal government. Granger and Yarborough first met the day before their Jan. 15 flight to Florida. When she came to his office, he said he was taken by the desperation in her eyes. As they devised a game plan, he stopped and asked, 'Can I go with you?' 'It was just kind of God's hand,' Yarborough said. 'And he wasn't going to deny us getting there.' Granger said things moved fast once Yarborough joined her cause. Within 12 hours they had gathered $1,500 in donations from the school and Gateway Church. A few of Yarborough's friends set up a Web site and at Lackland AFB, where her husband Robert works, colleagues offered prayers. In Fort Lauderdale, they were joined on the flight to the Dominican Republic by Granger's close friend, Yvon 'Junior' Desjardins. At the San Isidoro Air Base in the Dominican Republic, Granger and Desjardins helped French aid workers with translations. Then, Yarborough contacted a military member who helped them board a border patrol helicopter to the U.S. embassy in Haiti. They arrived in Haiti late Sunday. Once there, they contacted a woman named Florence Thybulle, founder of the Renmen Orphanage, who provided a car with a quarter of a tank of gas left in it. By the time they drove out to search for her girls, it was pitch black, they said. There was no moon, no streetlamps. They used a flashlight to search along streets littered with corpses and debris. Once in the Nazon neighborhood where her daughters lived, they left the car and went looking for their house. There was rubble everywhere. When Granger trained a flashlight on her house, she saw nothing but ruins. The only thing left was a black, metal gate. Granger's knees buckled. Junior and Yarborough held her by the arms as she screamed her girls' names. Suddenly, they heard cries from the darkness just outside the gate. They quickly grew into screams of 'Mom, we're here, we're here, mom!' Angel, Bianca and Fafan stumbled from the dark into their mother's arms. Family members had tried to persuade the girls to follow them to a nearby soccer field, but Angel said no. She said they needed to stay near the house in case their mother sent a friend or came herself to find them. Granger's oldest daughter said she never lost hope that her mother would come for them. 'I thought I found my savior,' Angel said of the moment when she heard her mother's screams. 'I'm very happy that we're finally here.' 