Please read the following updates received over the weekend by our friends at The Global Orphan Project. Check back often for additional updates and more information on how you can help.
Live from Haiti (1/19/2010 9:00 am CST)
Our next two ‘food and supply’ trucks arrived from the DR this morning, it is perfect timing! Because, we have more children arriving at our transition village in Croix des Bouguets. Our team will be adding more and more kids because there are so many without parents, relatives, food, shelter in Port Au Prince.
Some of the team is riding is a broken down, bald tired, raggedy Suzuki to deliver food and water to a local orphanage of 151 children who are bone dry and without anything.
In addition to the desperate need for more food and water for orphans, they also need folks who will love on them and help them to recover and rejoice again. We’ll be updating our trips page on the web site with upcoming trips starting in February – they need you.
Update from Haiti (1/19/2010 3:35 PM CST)
One of the two trucks filled with water and food our field team has put to use as a cavan between the Dominican and our Transitional Orphan Village in Croix des Bouguets, Haiti. With so many images of devastation its fantastic to see real help getting to where it needs to go! No doubt that its a great deal of work to make this happen but somehow our team is making it all work well.
Also, an interesting article posted about how critical our transitional orphan village is and will be in the days ahead.Read it here>>
Update from Haiti (1/19/2010 6:52 PM CST)
From Joe Knittig in Croix des Bouguets, Haiti
36 more children showed up this afternoon to the transitional orphan village we have set up, I’m in the truck with 15 more right now, That’s 87 from one devastated community (where Moise’s church is). Not sure all the kids are “orphans” as we might think of them. What I am sure of is that all are in serious trouble and are without help. We’re confident that many of these kids can be reunited with family through the church when the dust settles.
Pray for that.
We’ll pick up the pace a bit tomorrow on penetrating the make-shift refugee camps. Kids who have lost parents are flocking there. They’re just hard to get in to with the mass of humanity. The air in PAP is brutal.
6.1 Aftershock Hits Haiti -Update (1/20/2010 6:46 AM CST)
From Joe Knittig live in Haiti
We’re on our way to Carrefour, got a late start because a 6.1 earthquake hit a little while ago (Eben Ezer is fine). Entering the heart of Port au Prince now. We’ll keep you posted on further damage due to the new quake.
CNN Link >>
Haiti Earthquake Update (1/20/2010 2:20 CST)
From Joe Knittig, live in Haiti:
While we were at the Hospital this a.m. the Lead Administrator and Doc had us leave with a little boy, orphaned, pulled from the rubble. We had to drive 2 hrs in a tap tap holding his IV bag. Barely hanging on. Don’t know his name or age. I think he’s about 4 – he’s about the same size as my little guy, Isaac. I consider today his birthday. Pray for him. Going back to the hospital to get more children orphaned by the disaster that the hospital has and cannot house. Many are injured. Doc Bill is going to be busy. Trace and Beth have arrived and are with me now. They’re like a breath of fresh air!
