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Perspectives on immediate and long-term needs in Haiti
Haiti needs immediate (disaster relief), intermediate (reconstruction) and long-term (systemic and disaster prevention) assistance writes Aidan Rooney, CM. The Red Cross, Mercy Corps, Doctors Without Borders, CRS and others excel in their abilities to plan and to...
Vincentian Lay Missionaries use Facebook to support Haiti
Vincentian Lay Missionary Krissy Bennett Bruce saw a possibility to help disaster efforts in Haiti, so she posted it on Facebook. "...people can text 'HAITI' to 90999 and a $10 donation will be made to Red Cross. $10 will be added to your phone bill." From Bolivia,...
The Vincentian Family in Haiti – Reports and Responses
Reports are pouring in depicting the magnitude of the crisis unfolding in Haiti. The Vincentian Family has a long history of presence in Haiti and is very much present in this crisis. It may well be providential that in this year dedicated to the 350th Anniversary of...
SVDP-USA President Calls For Haiti Earthquake Relief Funds
National President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA Joseph D. Flannigan has issued a call to the 120,000 volunteer members of the Society in the United States, as well as to the general public, to help provide assistance for the victims of the terrible Haiti...
Ascension Health (St. Louis) coming to aid of Haiti
Ascension Health in St. Louis, the nation’s largest Catholic health system, is asking its 113,000 employees to make donations to Seton Institute, Ascension’s international arm. “One hundred percent of donations will go directly to sponsors there in Haiti for their...
Haiti: Notre Dame de Sacre Coeur
The sisters ofNotre Dame de Sacre Coeur in Haiti (link no longer active) in Cape Haitian are all OK and they had no loss of property. Click on the preceding link to learn more of their involvement in Haiti.
Haiti: Bishop and head of the UN Mission killed
The Bishop of Port au Prince, Msgr. Joseph Miot, aged 63, was killed in the quake as well as the head of the UN Mission, Hedi Annabi.
Haiti: First reports of the Vincentian Family
Fr. Faustino Burgos C.M., former visitor of Puerto Rico (the current visitor, Fr. Tulio Cordero, is in Rome and has departed today for Santo Domingo), called the Superior General to give the following news about the earthquake this morning in Haiti: The provincial...
Strong earthquake collapses hospital in Haiti
According to ABC News reporting at 5:30 Tuesday EST... "The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 14 miles (22 kilometers) west from the capital of Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. An Associated Press videographer...
Where Unsold Clothes Meet People in Need
The New York Times has an article about what happens to unsold clothes and how some are managing to get such clothing to those who need them before the clothing is destroyed.
