Haiti

Current information and photographs from our parishioners and ministry partners in Haiti:

February 12, 2010- email from Gillaine Warne
As the weeks pass and the atmosphere in the Church and the OR changes, we are once again humbled by the incredible resistance of the Haitian people. We are seeing fewer new patients coming in, but those who do have wounds that are now already one month old, and they are in terrible condition, needing drastic attention.   Stories are still amazing...
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February 2, 2010- email from Gillaine Warne
As things seem to be quieting down, and large teams of surgeons and nurses arrive to help, life is starting to resume in a more normal way. I don’t think we will ever be able to say “normal” again in the same way, as the long and far reaching consequences of the disaster on Jan 12th will mark this country forever.
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January 29, 2010- email from Gillaine Warne
Early this morning Bossuet received a very urgent call from one of our Agriculture Agents, to bring the pickup truck to Belandry, a village out from Boucan Carre, to pick up some goods.
Off he went and when arriving at his destination much to his surprise and joy, he found our Agriculture Agent waiting with many members of the community.
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January 27, 2010 - email from Gillaine Warne
Sunday was beautiful day, and after last week’s experience, the External Clinic, now become the Church, was prepared way ahead of time with loud speakers bringing the music and service outside to the many who were unable to fit inside. Our music had a less somber tone and voices lifted in praise were once again those beautiful harmonic cadences that bring chills to the spine.
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January 26, 2010 - email from Gillaine Warne
It is quite amazing to think, but up here in thePlateau Central we are protected from so much, including the news, and so not only because we have been flat out in the Church we have not heard anything or seen any photos of the disaster in Port au Prince. Fr. Lafontant told me I had to go down and see for myself what it was like; so much to our distress at having to leave patients etc. we went down yesterday.  I have no idea what a country in the middle of a savage war would look like, but this must surely be compared to a bombing of the greatest magnitude.
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Previous updates from our parishioners and ministry partners in Haiti can be found here.

If you would like more information about our ministry in Haiti, please click here.  To contribute towards relief efforts, please click here.

The chapel in Cange is being used for a triage center, as the hospital beds are all full.  The school is also being used as a medical facility.