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Earthquake News from AGI Haiti partners
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Email from Quixote Center/Haiti Reborn on Friday, January 22, 2010 7:33 PM: "Ten days in to the crisis in Haiti, the Quixote Center, partnering with KONPAY and others, has helped get urgently needed medical teams and supplies to the city of Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast. Working with a group of grassroots NGOs, - the Coordinated Rapid Response to Haiti Earthquake - and Haitian partners we have done what many in the international community are struggling to do. Your donations helped bring three boatloads of doctors and supplies directly to Jacmel by sea. The situation in Port-au Prince is dire. Yesterday, the Haitian government announced plans to relocate 400,000 people from PAP to tent villages outside the capital."
Email From Community Coalition Haiti on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:26 PM - Subject: Haiti Earthquake - Emergency Funder Assistance - "CCH is providing medical teams and supplies and coordination efforts for Jacmel. We are also shipping in food and water. Gas is the most critical need country wide."
Email From Haiti Reborn/Quixote Center On: Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:58 AM: “We are hearing reports of increasing violence and insecurity in Port-au-Prince (PAP) as people become desperate for their basic needs to be met and they deal with all the death and destruction around them. Our partners heard gunshots throughout the night on Friday. Haiti Reborn and The Quixote Center is partnering with Amurt-Haiti, Beyond Borders, KONPAY and Rights Based Haiti to get medical help and supplies to both PAP and Jacmel. We need your help in this effort. Please donate.”
Email from Partners In Development on Friday, January 15, 2010 2:31 PM: Good news from Haiti! We received word that our Field Directors in Haiti are alive and well! All of the homes built by Partners In Development are standing! Our medical clinic is standing!!! We have been told that people are gathering at the clinic waiting for us. There are still thousands of people we serve that we have not heard from, but we are encouraged by the good news. We are continuing to coordinate a relief team to travel to Haiti soon and work in our clinic. We are asking anyone who want to go on a relief trip to fill out an online application here: http://www.pidonline.org/Haitian_Earthquake.html
From: Faith and Love In Action On: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:15 PM - "It was a time of Praise to the Lord this morning when I was able to speak with the children in Jacmel. Despite living and sleeping outside the buildings, they have found refuge in prayer and they have not lost hope. Renel was in school downtown when the building collapsed. He’s one of the 3 students who made it out alive. Fafane, is a student at a university that collapsed. She is alive, she was able to borrow a phone and call us this morning. We are still waiting to hear from Henry and his family. We just got news through the school principal that the church and school building in Marbial collapsed. We haven’t heard anything yet of the 340 school children and the rest of the school staff. We have not heard from the other schools or churches either. Please continue to pray!!!
As a result of the earthquake in Haiti, AGI is aware of recent immigration changes that may be helpful for Haitians currently in the US without legal status. Please contact Surinder Moore at AGI for information about possible professional legal help: surinder@alternativegifts.org.
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