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UPDATE ON HAITI EARTHQUAKE, LITTLE SISTERS OF ST. THERESE
AND LINKS TO PARTNERS OFFERING ASSISTANCE
(As of January 19, 2010)
The Motherhouse of the Little Sisters of St. Therese in Port-au-Prince has significant damage.
The school and the guesthouse totally collapsed. They fear about 100 children are buried in the school building collapse. They pulled out 25-30 children, some living and some not. The Motherhouse building used to be a two-story building and is now one-story.
Although two of the sisters died in Port-au-Prince, no sister died at the Motherhouse. Everyone is sleeping outside, and food and water are needed. They are also in desperate need of engineers and heavy equipment to move the tons of concrete that is making it very difficult to move around the area. Please keep all the people of Haiti in your prayers.
The Loretto Special Needs Fund will be sending a donation to help the people of Haiti.
The following organizatons are also offering aid and medical attention in Haiti:
Meds and Food for Kids
4488 Forest Park, #230
St. Louis, MO 63108
Email: www.mfkhaiti.org
They provide food for earthquake survivors from their plant in North
Haiti which was not damaged.
Fonkoze
50 F. St. NW #810
Washington, DC 20001
Email: www.fonkoze.org
Over 200 employees and branches throughout Haiti
deliver emergency aid and rebuilding assistance.
Partners in Health
Email: www.standwithhaiti.org
This is a medical care network in Haiti, facilities still functional.
Haitian Health Foundation
Email: www.haitianhealthfoundation.org
HHF is a humanitarian outreach of lay and religious people serving under a secular administration. HHF provides services to over 225,000 people in rural villages in and around Jeremie in Western Haiti. The Hospital Sisters of St. Francis are partners in this effort.
To donate to the sisters directly, contact:
American Province of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis
4849 LaVerna Road • Springfield, IL 62707 • (217) 522-3386
Email: webcontact@hospitalsisters.org
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