Earthquake Emergency Assistance For Haiti
We have established an Emergency Earthquake Assistance program. Donations made now will be dedicated to providing clean water, food, and medicine on the streets of Port au Prince. We’ve established connections with people on-the-streets in Port au Prince to provide immediate help. As always, 100% of the donations made to Haitian Pilgrims will reach Haiti; we have no administrative costs since the work is done by unpaid volunteers. Emergency relief will temporarily take priority over our primary mission of long-term sustainability for rural villages.
Our regular supporters know that our primary mission is helping the village of Boileau achieve self-sustainability through assistance with infrastructure—water, education, food, micro-credit. Since phone service is down, we have not spoken directly with the villagers. We feel pretty confident that the villagers in Boileau are OK. We don't know about the buildings -- the school and the clinic we built. Reports from Cavaillon and Les Caye are that the quake shook them - strong tremors, but the buildings did not come tumbling down. We don't know if there is less obvious damage that compromises the buildings. Since the quake occurred "after hours" -- the kids had gone home from school and the clinic had closed for the day -- we are quite confident that there were no injuries at our buildings.
We will have members of Haitian Pilgrims at St. Philip weekend masses. Or, to make donations to the Emergency Earthquake Assistance program, please send a check to:
Haitian Pilgrims
844 Lochmoor Lane
Highland Village, Texas 75077-3106
As always, donations to Haitian Pilgrims are tax deductible.
If questions, please email: mikefrost@haitianpilgrims.org
Thank you for your compassionate response to this emergency.
Also, we did get a report that the road from Boileau to Port au Prince was destroyed by the quake. (Those who have traveled with us might remember the detour up over the mountain constructed when the bridge was washed away in the 2008 hurricanes.) The detour was destroyed – large crevice in the road and blocked by landslide. We will not be able to get the doctor and medicine from our village to help quake victims until the road is cleared.
Also, Hotel Montana, the hotel where we stayed when we had to overnight in Port au Prince, is completely collapsed.
