This org has set up at least 2-3 CTC centers and is running them. Need to get them ID'ed and entered into the database - Until we have the details, do not add to CTC flyer - LTel 11-10-10
Why U.S. aid workers refuse to give up
January 13, 2011
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/01/12/aid.workers.haiti/index.html
Samaritan's Purse has also issued an urgent call for medical professionals to volunteer in Haiti.
In addition to volunteers, the group needs financial support to continue to provide medical supplies. It has sent 10 planeloads full of these supplies, but the supplies are barely keeping pace with the need.
"It can take 24 bags of IV solution, eight bags a day for three days, per person. If you then look at thousands of people affected, you can see the overwhelming need." said Melissa Strickland of Samaritan's Purse.
Samaritan’s Purse teams are beginning to deliver relief supplies to communities that have received little or no help
Samaritan's Purse teams bringing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti are beginning to work in remote areas outside Port-au-Prince where the need is tremendous, but no help has yet arrived.
After assessing needs and meeting with church leaders, we are providing emergency supplies in areas devastated by the earthquake between Leogane and Petit Goave.
We sent program managers and water engineers to set up a base of operations in Petit Goave, a small town five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake where at least 500 people died. We sent in an initial truck load of shelter materials, blankets, and hygiene kits, and distributed the materials through 30 local churches to people with the greatest needs.
A 76-year-old pastor named Lys Beauge is helping coordinate the effort. He said there are also pastors from isolated mountain communities coming to get materials. Many of them travel for hours or even days to reach Petit Goave.
“This is a wonderful thing you are doing,” Pastor Beauge said. “You are the first ones who came to help us.”
Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. Just about every building was flattened. There’s a large tent camp there where about 4,500 families are crammed together in makeshift shelters made out of scraps of whatever they could salvage from the wreckage. Samaritan’s Purse is distributing heavy-duty plastic and warm blankets, and gearing up to coordinate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts at the camp.
Our water engineers installed a water treatment system at the Blue Ridge Children’s Home in Leogane, and we left some bags of rice, beans, and corn for the children.
In Port-au-Prince, we have established a working relationship with a large church in Cite Soleil, the poorest area of Haiti. It is also known to be the most violent place in the country, but our team was able to walk through to assess needs and meet residents without any problem.
With volunteers from our church partner, we are planning to distribute food, plastic, and other relief items to 1,000 families there on Friday.
Medical professionals working with Samaritan's Purse at Baptist Haiti Mission report that they have treated thousands of patients. We expect to continue to staff this hospital for at least the next three to four weeks. We are also assessing the need for medical brigades in remote communities.
It has been two full weeks since the earthquake, and our team reports that the situation on the ground is still desperate.
“Everybody is hungry,” said our team leader. News reports indicate that there may be as many as 300,000 children under two years of age who are suffering from malnutrition.
The latest official death toll stands at 112,250. This number is considered to be a low estimate because of the number of people still missing.
More flights with relief supplies continue to arrive. Also on the way is a barge loaded with heavy equipment and relief supplies that left Fort Pierce, Florida, Monday evening.
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
Wed Mar 16 06:26:10 +0000 2011 by DNug:notes: This org has set up at least 2-3 CTC centers and is running them. Need to get them ID'ed and entered into the database - Until we have the details, do not add to CTC flyer - LTel 11-10-10
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CCCM CAMP CLUSTER GOOGLE GROUP WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti
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January 26, 2010
Helping in Unreached Areas
Samaritan’s Purse teams are beginning to deliver relief supplies to communities that have received little or no help
Samaritan's Purse teams bringing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti are beginning to work in remote areas outside Port-au-Prince where the need is tremendous, but no help has yet arrived.
After assessing needs and meeting with church leaders, we are providing emergency supplies in areas devastated by the earthquake between Leogane and Petit Goave.
We sent program managers and water engineers to set up a base of operations in Petit Goave, a small town five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake where at least 500 people died. We sent in an initial truck load of shelter materials, blankets, and hygiene kits, and distributed the materials through 30 local churches to people with the greatest needs.
A 76-year-old pastor named Lys Beauge is helping coordinate the effort. He said there are also pastors from isolated mountain communities coming to get materials. Many of them travel for hours or even days to reach Petit Goave.
“This is a wonderful thing you are doing,” Pastor Beauge said. “You are the first ones who came to help us.”
Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. Just about every building was flattened. There’s a large tent camp there where about 4,500 families are crammed together in makeshift shelters made out of scraps of whatever they could salvage from the wreckage. Samaritan’s Purse is distributing heavy-duty plastic and warm blankets, and gearing up to coordinate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts at the camp.
Our water engineers installed a water treatment system at the Blue Ridge Children’s Home in Leogane, and we left some bags of rice, beans, and corn for the children.
In Port-au-Prince, we have established a working relationship with a large church in Cite Soleil, the poorest area of Haiti. It is also known to be the most violent place in the country, but our team was able to walk through to assess needs and meet residents without any problem.
With volunteers from our church partner, we are planning to distribute food, plastic, and other relief items to 1,000 families there on Friday.
Medical professionals working with Samaritan's Purse at Baptist Haiti Mission report that they have treated thousands of patients. We expect to continue to staff this hospital for at least the next three to four weeks. We are also assessing the need for medical brigades in remote communities.
It has been two full weeks since the earthquake, and our team reports that the situation on the ground is still desperate.
“Everybody is hungry,” said our team leader. News reports indicate that there may be as many as 300,000 children under two years of age who are suffering from malnutrition.
The latest official death toll stands at 112,250. This number is considered to be a low estimate because of the number of people still missing.
Relief items distributed by Samaritan's Purse to date include:
• 889 Hygiene Kits
• 480 Solar Flashlights
• 1,421 Blankets
• 617 Shelter Kits
• 102 Water Purification Kits
• 550 Pounds of Food to Orphanages
More flights with relief supplies continue to arrive. Also on the way is a barge loaded with heavy equipment and relief supplies that left Fort Pierce, Florida, Monday evening.
----------------------------------------------------
January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
-------------------------------------------------------------
from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942 -> This org has set up at least 2-3 CTC centers and is running them. Need to get them ID'ed and entered into the database - Until we have the details, do not add to CTC flyer - LTel 11-10-10
================================================
CCCM CAMP CLUSTER GOOGLE GROUP WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti
------------------------------------------------
Why U.S. aid workers refuse to give up
January 13, 2011
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/01/12/aid.workers.haiti/index.html
Excerpt -
Samaritan's Purse has also issued an urgent call for medical professionals to volunteer in Haiti.
In addition to volunteers, the group needs financial support to continue to provide medical supplies. It has sent 10 planeloads full of these supplies, but the supplies are barely keeping pace with the need.
"It can take 24 bags of IV solution, eight bags a day for three days, per person. If you then look at thousands of people affected, you can see the overwhelming need." said Melissa Strickland of Samaritan's Purse.
-------------------------------------------------
January 26, 2010
Helping in Unreached Areas
Samaritan’s Purse teams are beginning to deliver relief supplies to communities that have received little or no help
Samaritan's Purse teams bringing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti are beginning to work in remote areas outside Port-au-Prince where the need is tremendous, but no help has yet arrived.
After assessing needs and meeting with church leaders, we are providing emergency supplies in areas devastated by the earthquake between Leogane and Petit Goave.
We sent program managers and water engineers to set up a base of operations in Petit Goave, a small town five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake where at least 500 people died. We sent in an initial truck load of shelter materials, blankets, and hygiene kits, and distributed the materials through 30 local churches to people with the greatest needs.
A 76-year-old pastor named Lys Beauge is helping coordinate the effort. He said there are also pastors from isolated mountain communities coming to get materials. Many of them travel for hours or even days to reach Petit Goave.
“This is a wonderful thing you are doing,” Pastor Beauge said. “You are the first ones who came to help us.”
Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. Just about every building was flattened. There’s a large tent camp there where about 4,500 families are crammed together in makeshift shelters made out of scraps of whatever they could salvage from the wreckage. Samaritan’s Purse is distributing heavy-duty plastic and warm blankets, and gearing up to coordinate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts at the camp.
Our water engineers installed a water treatment system at the Blue Ridge Children’s Home in Leogane, and we left some bags of rice, beans, and corn for the children.
In Port-au-Prince, we have established a working relationship with a large church in Cite Soleil, the poorest area of Haiti. It is also known to be the most violent place in the country, but our team was able to walk through to assess needs and meet residents without any problem.
With volunteers from our church partner, we are planning to distribute food, plastic, and other relief items to 1,000 families there on Friday.
Medical professionals working with Samaritan's Purse at Baptist Haiti Mission report that they have treated thousands of patients. We expect to continue to staff this hospital for at least the next three to four weeks. We are also assessing the need for medical brigades in remote communities.
It has been two full weeks since the earthquake, and our team reports that the situation on the ground is still desperate.
“Everybody is hungry,” said our team leader. News reports indicate that there may be as many as 300,000 children under two years of age who are suffering from malnutrition.
The latest official death toll stands at 112,250. This number is considered to be a low estimate because of the number of people still missing.
Relief items distributed by Samaritan's Purse to date include:
• 889 Hygiene Kits
• 480 Solar Flashlights
• 1,421 Blankets
• 617 Shelter Kits
• 102 Water Purification Kits
• 550 Pounds of Food to Orphanages
More flights with relief supplies continue to arrive. Also on the way is a barge loaded with heavy equipment and relief supplies that left Fort Pierce, Florida, Monday evening.
----------------------------------------------------
January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
-------------------------------------------------------------
from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942
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other_contacts changed.
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January 26, 2010
Helping in Unreached Areas
Samaritan’s Purse teams are beginning to deliver relief supplies to communities that have received little or no help
Samaritan's Purse teams bringing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti are beginning to work in remote areas outside Port-au-Prince where the need is tremendous, but no help has yet arrived.
After assessing needs and meeting with church leaders, we are providing emergency supplies in areas devastated by the earthquake between Leogane and Petit Goave.
We sent program managers and water engineers to set up a base of operations in Petit Goave, a small town five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake where at least 500 people died. We sent in an initial truck load of shelter materials, blankets, and hygiene kits, and distributed the materials through 30 local churches to people with the greatest needs.
A 76-year-old pastor named Lys Beauge is helping coordinate the effort. He said there are also pastors from isolated mountain communities coming to get materials. Many of them travel for hours or even days to reach Petit Goave.
“This is a wonderful thing you are doing,” Pastor Beauge said. “You are the first ones who came to help us.”
Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. Just about every building was flattened. There’s a large tent camp there where about 4,500 families are crammed together in makeshift shelters made out of scraps of whatever they could salvage from the wreckage. Samaritan’s Purse is distributing heavy-duty plastic and warm blankets, and gearing up to coordinate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts at the camp.
Our water engineers installed a water treatment system at the Blue Ridge Children’s Home in Leogane, and we left some bags of rice, beans, and corn for the children.
In Port-au-Prince, we have established a working relationship with a large church in Cite Soleil, the poorest area of Haiti. It is also known to be the most violent place in the country, but our team was able to walk through to assess needs and meet residents without any problem.
With volunteers from our church partner, we are planning to distribute food, plastic, and other relief items to 1,000 families there on Friday.
Medical professionals working with Samaritan's Purse at Baptist Haiti Mission report that they have treated thousands of patients. We expect to continue to staff this hospital for at least the next three to four weeks. We are also assessing the need for medical brigades in remote communities.
It has been two full weeks since the earthquake, and our team reports that the situation on the ground is still desperate.
“Everybody is hungry,” said our team leader. News reports indicate that there may be as many as 300,000 children under two years of age who are suffering from malnutrition.
The latest official death toll stands at 112,250. This number is considered to be a low estimate because of the number of people still missing.
Relief items distributed by Samaritan's Purse to date include:
• 889 Hygiene Kits
• 480 Solar Flashlights
• 1,421 Blankets
• 617 Shelter Kits
• 102 Water Purification Kits
• 550 Pounds of Food to Orphanages
More flights with relief supplies continue to arrive. Also on the way is a barge loaded with heavy equipment and relief supplies that left Fort Pierce, Florida, Monday evening.
----------------------------------------------------
January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
-------------------------------------------------------------
from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942 -> This org has set up at least 2-3 CTC centers and is running them. Need to get them ID'ed and entered into the database - Until we have the details, do not add to CTC flyer - LTel 11-10-10
================================================
CCCM CAMP CLUSTER GOOGLE GROUP WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti
------------------------------------------------
January 26, 2010
Helping in Unreached Areas
Samaritan’s Purse teams are beginning to deliver relief supplies to communities that have received little or no help
Samaritan's Purse teams bringing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti are beginning to work in remote areas outside Port-au-Prince where the need is tremendous, but no help has yet arrived.
After assessing needs and meeting with church leaders, we are providing emergency supplies in areas devastated by the earthquake between Leogane and Petit Goave.
We sent program managers and water engineers to set up a base of operations in Petit Goave, a small town five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake where at least 500 people died. We sent in an initial truck load of shelter materials, blankets, and hygiene kits, and distributed the materials through 30 local churches to people with the greatest needs.
A 76-year-old pastor named Lys Beauge is helping coordinate the effort. He said there are also pastors from isolated mountain communities coming to get materials. Many of them travel for hours or even days to reach Petit Goave.
“This is a wonderful thing you are doing,” Pastor Beauge said. “You are the first ones who came to help us.”
Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. Just about every building was flattened. There’s a large tent camp there where about 4,500 families are crammed together in makeshift shelters made out of scraps of whatever they could salvage from the wreckage. Samaritan’s Purse is distributing heavy-duty plastic and warm blankets, and gearing up to coordinate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts at the camp.
Our water engineers installed a water treatment system at the Blue Ridge Children’s Home in Leogane, and we left some bags of rice, beans, and corn for the children.
In Port-au-Prince, we have established a working relationship with a large church in Cite Soleil, the poorest area of Haiti. It is also known to be the most violent place in the country, but our team was able to walk through to assess needs and meet residents without any problem.
With volunteers from our church partner, we are planning to distribute food, plastic, and other relief items to 1,000 families there on Friday.
Medical professionals working with Samaritan's Purse at Baptist Haiti Mission report that they have treated thousands of patients. We expect to continue to staff this hospital for at least the next three to four weeks. We are also assessing the need for medical brigades in remote communities.
It has been two full weeks since the earthquake, and our team reports that the situation on the ground is still desperate.
“Everybody is hungry,” said our team leader. News reports indicate that there may be as many as 300,000 children under two years of age who are suffering from malnutrition.
The latest official death toll stands at 112,250. This number is considered to be a low estimate because of the number of people still missing.
Relief items distributed by Samaritan's Purse to date include:
• 889 Hygiene Kits
• 480 Solar Flashlights
• 1,421 Blankets
• 617 Shelter Kits
• 102 Water Purification Kits
• 550 Pounds of Food to Orphanages
More flights with relief supplies continue to arrive. Also on the way is a barge loaded with heavy equipment and relief supplies that left Fort Pierce, Florida, Monday evening.
----------------------------------------------------
January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
-------------------------------------------------------------
from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942
(show/hide changes)Mon Nov 08 02:10:00 +0000 2010 by LTel:added cluster avails/updated facility name
name: Samaritan’s Purse (SHELTER/CAMP CLUSTER) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (SHELTER/RELIEF/FOOD/WATER PURIFICATION SUPPLIES) -> Samaritan’s Purse - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (SHELTER/RELIEF/FOOD/WATER PURIFICATION SUPPLIES)
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(show/hide changes)Sat Nov 06 15:54:29 +0000 2010 by LPar:added medical volunteer contact via email from Tom Wood
other_contacts changed.
(show/hide changes)Sat Mar 13 20:30:44 +0000 2010 by LTel:added internal contacts - shelter cluster
other_contacts changed.
(show/hide changes)Sat Mar 13 20:27:53 +0000 2010 by LTel:added internal contacts/notes - camp cluster
name: Samaritan’s Purse (SHELTER CLUSTER) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (SHELTER/RELIEF/FOOD/WATER PURIFICATION SUPPLIES) -> Samaritan’s Purse (SHELTER/CAMP CLUSTER) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (SHELTER/RELIEF/FOOD/WATER PURIFICATION SUPPLIES)
address: PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607 -> PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607
HAITI
notes: January 26, 2010
Helping in Unreached Areas
Samaritan’s Purse teams are beginning to deliver relief supplies to communities that have received little or no help
Samaritan's Purse teams bringing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti are beginning to work in remote areas outside Port-au-Prince where the need is tremendous, but no help has yet arrived.
After assessing needs and meeting with church leaders, we are providing emergency supplies in areas devastated by the earthquake between Leogane and Petit Goave.
We sent program managers and water engineers to set up a base of operations in Petit Goave, a small town five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake where at least 500 people died. We sent in an initial truck load of shelter materials, blankets, and hygiene kits, and distributed the materials through 30 local churches to people with the greatest needs.
A 76-year-old pastor named Lys Beauge is helping coordinate the effort. He said there are also pastors from isolated mountain communities coming to get materials. Many of them travel for hours or even days to reach Petit Goave.
“This is a wonderful thing you are doing,” Pastor Beauge said. “You are the first ones who came to help us.”
Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. Just about every building was flattened. There’s a large tent camp there where about 4,500 families are crammed together in makeshift shelters made out of scraps of whatever they could salvage from the wreckage. Samaritan’s Purse is distributing heavy-duty plastic and warm blankets, and gearing up to coordinate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts at the camp.
Our water engineers installed a water treatment system at the Blue Ridge Children’s Home in Leogane, and we left some bags of rice, beans, and corn for the children.
In Port-au-Prince, we have established a working relationship with a large church in Cite Soleil, the poorest area of Haiti. It is also known to be the most violent place in the country, but our team was able to walk through to assess needs and meet residents without any problem.
With volunteers from our church partner, we are planning to distribute food, plastic, and other relief items to 1,000 families there on Friday.
Medical professionals working with Samaritan's Purse at Baptist Haiti Mission report that they have treated thousands of patients. We expect to continue to staff this hospital for at least the next three to four weeks. We are also assessing the need for medical brigades in remote communities.
It has been two full weeks since the earthquake, and our team reports that the situation on the ground is still desperate.
“Everybody is hungry,” said our team leader. News reports indicate that there may be as many as 300,000 children under two years of age who are suffering from malnutrition.
The latest official death toll stands at 112,250. This number is considered to be a low estimate because of the number of people still missing.
Relief items distributed by Samaritan's Purse to date include:
• 889 Hygiene Kits
• 480 Solar Flashlights
• 1,421 Blankets
• 617 Shelter Kits
• 102 Water Purification Kits
• 550 Pounds of Food to Orphanages
More flights with relief supplies continue to arrive. Also on the way is a barge loaded with heavy equipment and relief supplies that left Fort Pierce, Florida, Monday evening.
----------------------------------------------------
January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
-------------------------------------------------------------
from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942 -> CCCM CAMP CLUSTER GOOGLE GROUP WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti
------------------------------------------------
January 26, 2010
Helping in Unreached Areas
Samaritan’s Purse teams are beginning to deliver relief supplies to communities that have received little or no help
Samaritan's Purse teams bringing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti are beginning to work in remote areas outside Port-au-Prince where the need is tremendous, but no help has yet arrived.
After assessing needs and meeting with church leaders, we are providing emergency supplies in areas devastated by the earthquake between Leogane and Petit Goave.
We sent program managers and water engineers to set up a base of operations in Petit Goave, a small town five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake where at least 500 people died. We sent in an initial truck load of shelter materials, blankets, and hygiene kits, and distributed the materials through 30 local churches to people with the greatest needs.
A 76-year-old pastor named Lys Beauge is helping coordinate the effort. He said there are also pastors from isolated mountain communities coming to get materials. Many of them travel for hours or even days to reach Petit Goave.
“This is a wonderful thing you are doing,” Pastor Beauge said. “You are the first ones who came to help us.”
Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. Just about every building was flattened. There’s a large tent camp there where about 4,500 families are crammed together in makeshift shelters made out of scraps of whatever they could salvage from the wreckage. Samaritan’s Purse is distributing heavy-duty plastic and warm blankets, and gearing up to coordinate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts at the camp.
Our water engineers installed a water treatment system at the Blue Ridge Children’s Home in Leogane, and we left some bags of rice, beans, and corn for the children.
In Port-au-Prince, we have established a working relationship with a large church in Cite Soleil, the poorest area of Haiti. It is also known to be the most violent place in the country, but our team was able to walk through to assess needs and meet residents without any problem.
With volunteers from our church partner, we are planning to distribute food, plastic, and other relief items to 1,000 families there on Friday.
Medical professionals working with Samaritan's Purse at Baptist Haiti Mission report that they have treated thousands of patients. We expect to continue to staff this hospital for at least the next three to four weeks. We are also assessing the need for medical brigades in remote communities.
It has been two full weeks since the earthquake, and our team reports that the situation on the ground is still desperate.
“Everybody is hungry,” said our team leader. News reports indicate that there may be as many as 300,000 children under two years of age who are suffering from malnutrition.
The latest official death toll stands at 112,250. This number is considered to be a low estimate because of the number of people still missing.
Relief items distributed by Samaritan's Purse to date include:
• 889 Hygiene Kits
• 480 Solar Flashlights
• 1,421 Blankets
• 617 Shelter Kits
• 102 Water Purification Kits
• 550 Pounds of Food to Orphanages
More flights with relief supplies continue to arrive. Also on the way is a barge loaded with heavy equipment and relief supplies that left Fort Pierce, Florida, Monday evening.
----------------------------------------------------
January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
-------------------------------------------------------------
from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942
other_contacts changed.
(show/hide changes)Mon Mar 08 00:57:35 +0000 2010 by LTel:added internal contact - shelter cluster
name: Samaritan’s Purse - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (SHELTER/RELIEF/FOOD/WATER PURIFICATION SUPPLIES) -> Samaritan’s Purse (SHELTER CLUSTER) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (SHELTER/RELIEF/FOOD/WATER PURIFICATION SUPPLIES)
other_contacts changed.
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http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Samaritans_Purse_Today/ -> SEE NEWS also at:
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Samaritans_Purse_Today/
TWEETS -
http://www.mixx.com/stories/10479588/samaritan_s_purse_haiti_dr_extranet_dr_extranet_home_page_help_for_haiti_u_s_disa
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http://www.facebook.com/?filter=fl_1295359258264#!/topic.php?uid=21613374963&topic=20135
town: -> Cite Soleil
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(show/hide changes)Thu Jan 28 17:47:42 +0000 2010 by LTel:notes: January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
-------------------------------------------------------------
from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
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Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942 -> January 26, 2010
Helping in Unreached Areas
Samaritan’s Purse teams are beginning to deliver relief supplies to communities that have received little or no help
Samaritan's Purse teams bringing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti are beginning to work in remote areas outside Port-au-Prince where the need is tremendous, but no help has yet arrived.
After assessing needs and meeting with church leaders, we are providing emergency supplies in areas devastated by the earthquake between Leogane and Petit Goave.
We sent program managers and water engineers to set up a base of operations in Petit Goave, a small town five miles from the epicenter of the earthquake where at least 500 people died. We sent in an initial truck load of shelter materials, blankets, and hygiene kits, and distributed the materials through 30 local churches to people with the greatest needs.
A 76-year-old pastor named Lys Beauge is helping coordinate the effort. He said there are also pastors from isolated mountain communities coming to get materials. Many of them travel for hours or even days to reach Petit Goave.
“This is a wonderful thing you are doing,” Pastor Beauge said. “You are the first ones who came to help us.”
Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. Just about every building was flattened. There’s a large tent camp there where about 4,500 families are crammed together in makeshift shelters made out of scraps of whatever they could salvage from the wreckage. Samaritan’s Purse is distributing heavy-duty plastic and warm blankets, and gearing up to coordinate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts at the camp.
Our water engineers installed a water treatment system at the Blue Ridge Children’s Home in Leogane, and we left some bags of rice, beans, and corn for the children.
In Port-au-Prince, we have established a working relationship with a large church in Cite Soleil, the poorest area of Haiti. It is also known to be the most violent place in the country, but our team was able to walk through to assess needs and meet residents without any problem.
With volunteers from our church partner, we are planning to distribute food, plastic, and other relief items to 1,000 families there on Friday.
Medical professionals working with Samaritan's Purse at Baptist Haiti Mission report that they have treated thousands of patients. We expect to continue to staff this hospital for at least the next three to four weeks. We are also assessing the need for medical brigades in remote communities.
It has been two full weeks since the earthquake, and our team reports that the situation on the ground is still desperate.
“Everybody is hungry,” said our team leader. News reports indicate that there may be as many as 300,000 children under two years of age who are suffering from malnutrition.
The latest official death toll stands at 112,250. This number is considered to be a low estimate because of the number of people still missing.
Relief items distributed by Samaritan's Purse to date include:
• 889 Hygiene Kits
• 480 Solar Flashlights
• 1,421 Blankets
• 617 Shelter Kits
• 102 Water Purification Kits
• 550 Pounds of Food to Orphanages
More flights with relief supplies continue to arrive. Also on the way is a barge loaded with heavy equipment and relief supplies that left Fort Pierce, Florida, Monday evening.
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January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
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from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942
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January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942 -> January 16, 2010
Help Arrives in Haiti
Several Samaritan’s Purse cargo planes have arrived in Haiti, and more are on the way with critically-needed relief supplies for victims of the massive earthquake that rocked the country on Tuesday.
“We’ve got more planes coming in each and every day with medicine, with equipment on board, with personnel on board,” Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We will have three to four flights a day now for the remainder of this week and we’ll have more next week. We’re going to have enough material for 6,000 temporary shelters by the end of next week. Water is a tremendous issue. By the end of next week we’ll be able to produce close to a half-million gallons of fresh water a day.”
The initial shipment that arrived Wednesday included shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits, as well as members of our disaster response team. Three more flights with personnel and critically needed relief supplies landed Friday. Staff arriving included our team leader, two water engineers, and eight medical personnel.
Our team is comprised of veterans of many disaster responses, but even they were shocked by what they encountered when they arrived.
“The streets are full of people that have no home to go back to,” said Dr. David Gettle, medical advisor. “They’re running out of food, fuel, and water. The situation is desperate and tense, and there is tremendous suffering.”
Samaritan’s Purse deployed a disaster response team just hours after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs.
“The damage is staggering in a nation where three out of four people live on less than $2 a day,” Graham said. “The people of Haiti need our help like never before. It is desperate. We pray for the people of Haiti, that God would comfort those that have lost so much.”
We are partnering with HCJB Global, a medical ministry out of Ecuador that has sent doctors and nurses to join our medical advisor. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has deployed chaplains from its Rapid Response Team to help our team meet spiritual needs.
-------------------------------------------------------------
from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942
region: Carribean -> Haiti, Carribean
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Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port-au-Prince Wednesday
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Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942 -> from the website:
January 13, 2010
Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti
Samaritan’s Purse sends team, resources to help disaster victims
Samaritan’s Purse is sending a disaster assistance team to Haiti after the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in decades.
Samaritan’s Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water, and hygiene supplies.
An initial shipment of emergency relief items including rolls of plastic shelter material, hygiene kits, and water purification kits are being loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince Wednesday.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD Go to their website to listen to a report from
our partner in the field
Staff with Baptist Haiti Mission, our local partner, report severe damage throughout the area. Power is out, and there is no water.
"It's overwhelming," said Kyrk Baker, director of operations for Baptist Haiti Mission. "We have a 100-bed hospital, and right now patients are lining the floor. There are big box vans coming in with people to see a doctor. It's just unbelievable the amount of people that are lined up trying to get basic medical care."
Baptist Haiti Mission is located in the mountains outside Port Au Prince, about 20 miles from the epicenter. The hospital and other buildings are operating on generators.
The massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit the country in 200 years and was felt as far away as Cuba. The tremor sparked widespread panic as it brought down buildings including the presidential palace, hotels, a hospital, and the UN headquarters in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince
“It's really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping. Many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors.
The death toll was expected to climb into the hundreds, but no official figure has been released so far.
“Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,” Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti told the Associated Press. “The sky is just gray with dust.”
The earthquake was centered about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.
Samaritan's Purse responded in Haiti with emergency food and shelter material in September 2008, when four major storms including Hurricane Ike slammed the Caribbean nation. We worked with Baptist Haiti Mission for that response also.
"Being able to help people in a time of need demonstrates Christ's love," Baker said.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
For victims of the earthquake, and for rescue crews and other emergency workers.
For the Samaritan's Purse team that is on its way to Haiti.
For wisdom as we decide where to work.
GIVE:
Please visit our donation page to help us meet the needs of earthquake victims in Haiti.
===============
Donations -
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/Project_Donations/?pc=13942
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