Monday, November 15, 2010
More Cholera Pics
Please pray. Please donate. Help the Rescue Center. This horrible epidemic is going to get much worse before it gets better.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Cholera has come to the Rescue Center
At Spirited Worship last week I reported that it seemed like Cholera was being contained or slowed. I spoke too soon. It has reached Port au Prince, and has now impacted Real Hope for Haiti's Rescue Center and Clinic. Here is today's post from RHFH.
Lori and Licia say:
I really do not know what to write today. My emotions are all mixed up. I am leaving Cazale for a few days with the kids and Enoch. We had 17 people right in our front yard last night. We are working to move them to the facility that was original set up for Cholera treatment. Lori has not slept yet. The rest of us went to bed at 2am. Today there are three of our nurses, Lori and another US nurse working. Maybe (hoping and praying) this afternoon we will have a team of medical people coming in to help. Someone is coming to test the water in the area. From talking to those that came last night they are drinking treated water, but all took baths in the river. I just went outside and someone was brushing their teeth in the river. So some, even with all the education being given, are not getting it. We do not want to get everyone excited and make this into something bigger than it is. We just want to be prepared to help as many as we can. I love Lori so much and we work so good together in these types of situation. But…I have to think about my kids and what is best for my family right now. It is so hard to leave for a few days. We need your prayers right now. I will try to have Casey or Mary update the blog as needed. We are praying that things will calm down and there be no more cases. But we also need to be prepared to take in more patients. Especially as the larger facilities are getting full. Reporting of Cholera under reported in many areas. They are giving out list of places that are opened to receive patients. Then some of these places are not opened. The emergency numbers given are working now. No results from the lab yet, we have called multiple times but have not been able to get results. They have told us several times that they will email us with form and info but have not yet done this.
Please Pray.
Steph
Lori and Licia say:
I really do not know what to write today. My emotions are all mixed up. I am leaving Cazale for a few days with the kids and Enoch. We had 17 people right in our front yard last night. We are working to move them to the facility that was original set up for Cholera treatment. Lori has not slept yet. The rest of us went to bed at 2am. Today there are three of our nurses, Lori and another US nurse working. Maybe (hoping and praying) this afternoon we will have a team of medical people coming in to help. Someone is coming to test the water in the area. From talking to those that came last night they are drinking treated water, but all took baths in the river. I just went outside and someone was brushing their teeth in the river. So some, even with all the education being given, are not getting it. We do not want to get everyone excited and make this into something bigger than it is. We just want to be prepared to help as many as we can. I love Lori so much and we work so good together in these types of situation. But…I have to think about my kids and what is best for my family right now. It is so hard to leave for a few days. We need your prayers right now. I will try to have Casey or Mary update the blog as needed. We are praying that things will calm down and there be no more cases. But we also need to be prepared to take in more patients. Especially as the larger facilities are getting full. Reporting of Cholera under reported in many areas. They are giving out list of places that are opened to receive patients. Then some of these places are not opened. The emergency numbers given are working now. No results from the lab yet, we have called multiple times but have not been able to get results. They have told us several times that they will email us with form and info but have not yet done this.
Please Pray.
Steph
Saturday, November 6, 2010
What the UUSC is doing for Haiti
Learn more about the UUSC's Integrated Approach to helping Haiti in this article and video from the UUSC website. UUSC is one of the two organizations we are supporting this year.
After the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, UUSC responded with its unique integrated approach of grassroots eye-to-eye partnerships, constituent advocacy, and public policy work. This short film demonstrates how UUSC supports people affected by humanitarian crises who are overlooked by traditional relief efforts. They are rebuilding their lives as heroes of their own story, contrary to the mass-media viewpoint of Haitians as helpless victims. UUSC's unique eye-to-eye partnership model understands that in an unequal society like Haiti, survivors don't just need food, they need justice.
Won't you please donate, or send your family and friends to this blog so they can chip in too? It would mean so much to our Spirited Worship kids, and to Haiti!
Blessings...
Steph
After the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, UUSC responded with its unique integrated approach of grassroots eye-to-eye partnerships, constituent advocacy, and public policy work. This short film demonstrates how UUSC supports people affected by humanitarian crises who are overlooked by traditional relief efforts. They are rebuilding their lives as heroes of their own story, contrary to the mass-media viewpoint of Haitians as helpless victims. UUSC's unique eye-to-eye partnership model understands that in an unequal society like Haiti, survivors don't just need food, they need justice.
Won't you please donate, or send your family and friends to this blog so they can chip in too? It would mean so much to our Spirited Worship kids, and to Haiti!
Blessings...
Steph
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