AFTERSHOCK: an Update from Haiti

After a massive 6.1 aftershock rocked Port-au-Prince once again this week, we received an urgent message from our Canadian GAiN staff in Haiti.

“After spending the past 5 days seeing, feeling and smelling the destruction and massive loss of life from the earthquake just over one week ago, I am deeply moved. I realized that I would never have made it out of the house had this structure collapsed. I would have been one of the multitude crushed under tons of debris…It is a sobering thought,” writes Bill Blaney, director of GAiN Canada, in an email this morning.

The people in Haiti are living in tremendous fear and suffering. You can help bring them hope and healing.

GAiN, the humanitarian division of Power to Change, is on the ground in Haiti distributing emergency response kits containing food, water purification tablets, tents for shelter and basic hygiene necessities. Our disaster response specialists are managing the relief efforts, medical clinics are being set up and trauma counsellors will arrive this week.

Our national director in Haiti, Esperandieu Pierre, is mobilizing his network of local churches and pastors to assist in the distribution of aid and to be trained in trauma counselling. Amidst the staggering scenes of suffering and devastation, we are working with local churches to show the love and compassion of God to the people of Haiti.

But they urgently need your help.

Your gift will help deploy and distribute containers of emergency response kits, setup additional medical clinics and provide spiritual and emotional healing to those suffering right now.

Will you give generously to help us provide physical help and spiritual hope to the people of Haiti?

Join us in our online chat room on January 25 at 7pm EST to learn how to pray for Haiti during our “A Guide to Effective Daily Prayer (Part One)” online chat.

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One Response to “AFTERSHOCK: an Update from Haiti”

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• Skip Self says:

  January 23, 2010 at 8:34 am

  I am in the middle of trying to collect as much as i can in medical supplies, (I am a firefighter and medic on Vol. dept. In southern In.)I will be sending it through an org. called Orphan Grain Trian.