Follow the activities of our Delaware partners in Haiti here,
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=haitihttp://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100126/NEWS/1260311
and here:
http://www.delawareonline.com/section/VideoNetwork?bctid=63921861001#/News/Del.+team+returns+from+Haiti/43042526001/42498973001/63921861001
Hello Partners:
As you know, our colleagues leave for Haiti this afternoon. They are prepared, highly motivated and uncompromising in their commitment to put themselves on the frontline in a cause that is much bigger than themselves. How can we who are unable to go to Haiti be a part of this effort? There are three very basic things we can do.
First, we can provide moral and spiritual support to them by writing to Ingrid, Steve, or the Shapira's with words, just words, of encouragement. Second, we can also pray. Pray that they would be protected from danger, be given safe passage through the maze to the most appropriate places of service, and that they will be instrumental in bringing health where there is sickness, hope where there is despair, put a smile on many a sad face, and return with satisfaction and a spirit of renewal. That's why I love so much the prayer-song of St. Francis: "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace, where there is . . ."
Third, we can make a decided effort in helping to raise funds to sustain all phases of this initiative. This first phase is going ahead with whatever has been raised so far. But it will require a great deal more to sustain it. There is no doubt that "we make a living by what we get", but "we make a life by what we give" .
Thanks for the brave effort being made in a time of crisis. As Ingrid has written, all evidence is that God is opening a door. The least we can do is simply go through that door in faith.
Hedrick Edwards
BY THE NUMBERS
THE EARTHQUAKE
• 7.0 magnitude quake hit at 4:53 p.m. Jan. 12
• Aftershocks: 56 of magnitude 4.5 or greater
THE TOLL
• Bodies recovered: 150,000 (includes 54 Americans, 44 Europeans)
• Estimated dead: 200,000
• Rescued from collapsed buildings: 134
• Injured: 194,000
• Children who are unaccompanied, orphaned or lost a parent: 1 million
• People enduring amputations or other surgery: 200,000
THE DISPLACED
• Homeless: 1 million
• Living in makeshift camps: 700,000-800,000
• Tents needed for homeless: 200,000 family-size
• People who have fled Port-au-Prince for the countryside: 236,000
THE DAMAGE AND NEED
• Structures destroyed: 70 percent in broad areas of the capital; 90 percent in towns closer to the epicenter
• Schools destroyed or badly damaged: 90 percent throughout the capital
• People who need food aid: 2 million
• People receiving food aid: 400,000
THE RESPONSE
Backlog of planes waiting to land at the airport: 800-1,000
Flights landing each day: About 140
• U.S. military: About 20,000 troops, 18 ships
• U.N. peacekeeping troops and police: 12,500
• Donations: More than $1 billion from governments, including $575 million from Europe and $316 million from U.S. government, in addition to $470 million in donations through private U.S. charities.
Sources: U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, U.S. Geological Survey; European Commission Monitoring and Information Center; U.S. Agency for International Development; International Organization for Migration; U.S. Department of Defense; The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Save the Children
Haiti: Adventist relief efforts continue in midst of death and destruction.
Inter-American Division > Communication Department
Libna Stevens
Jan 20, 2010
Top Seventh-day Adventist leaders in Haiti reported that 522 church members were killed by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake which struck last week. More than 55 churches were destroyed, 60 churches partially damaged and some 27,000 church members left homeless
See Adventist Church near Port-Au-Prince International airport on Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/28427041/haitians-helping-haitians.htm
