Fellow Rotarians, here is the latest email received about Haiti. -
YIR President Michelle (Rotary Club of Montego Bay)
Dear all:
Thank you for your many emails of solidarity.
Please pass this email on to your ADGs or anyone else who needs it whose email you do not yet see in the reception list, which was not put together for emails such as these!
The Verrettes Rotarians are assessing local damage and providing first response as they can. We will be coordinating with DG Errol and DG nominee Guy Theodore.
The best way to help Haiti, as Rotarians, is to coordinate through our district leadership who will be coordinating in turn with all the Haitian clubs.
YIR President Michelle (Rotary Club of Montego Bay)
Dear all:
Thank you for your many emails of solidarity.
Please pass this email on to your ADGs or anyone else who needs it whose email you do not yet see in the reception list, which was not put together for emails such as these!
The Verrettes Rotarians are assessing local damage and providing first response as they can. We will be coordinating with DG Errol and DG nominee Guy Theodore.
The best way to help Haiti, as Rotarians, is to coordinate through our district leadership who will be coordinating in turn with all the Haitian clubs.
In further news, I have received emails this morning that Hopital Albert Schweitzer is jam packed with earthquake victims. If there are collapsed buildings in Petite Riviere than the small MSPP hospital there must also be packed. I have not established contact with them yet but Partners in Health (Paul Farmer's group) is an active partner there and may have news.
Our club also has members from the Ministry of Health's regional health coordination and the maternity hospital in Verrettes. I have not yet heard from that member but I would guess they are handling patients as well.
Resupply of fuel and medical supplies will be the key. Unfortunately not only is the port infrastructure in Port au Prince damaged and bridges between us and Port down. The national Ministry offices and their records involved in customs clearance, and unfortunately some of the ministry workers themselves, are now entombed in rubble.
I suspect we will have to get clearance directly or through Red Cross etc. to bring supplies in through the ports in Cap Haitian, St. Marc, and perhaps Gonaives as is possible. I have no doubt that district leadership and local rotarians are tracking down the key people in the St Marc and Cap Haitian clubs to see what arrangements can be made.
Friends and fellow Rotarians, responding to this unparalleled crisis will take all our clubs and all our connections working together as few other organizations can.
Please keep alert for notifications from the district leadership as they coordinate. The future of Rotary and more than Rotary is most certainly in our hands.
With great gratitude,
Dawn Johnson
President 2009-2010,
Rotary Club of Verrettes 2010/1/13 Rotary Club des Verrettes <mailto:rotaryverrettes@gmail.com>
Photo : Blog Salvation Army UsaBrief news from the Rotary Club of Verrettes this morning:
There is damage in our area of Haiti - Desarmes, Petite Riviere de l'Artibonite, Borel, perhaps Verrettes itself. Petite Riviere has some buildings collapsed, but not to the extent of Port!
Rotary members and postulants at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital report casualties coming in.
They have power and email, but phone service is still down.
From our Vice President/ President elect Thelius Luckner to Fran, me 8:57 AM (1 hour ago)
Think you for receiving your e-mail so, I´m not too bad in the name of God.
Think you for receiving your e-mail so, I´m not too bad in the name of God.
About the earthquake there is a lot of houses destroyed in Port-au-Prince, Petit Goave,Petion Ville, Carrefour Delmas some where else such as the palais of Haiti where the president is, one side is distroyed the palais of Justice also some Schools, so there is a lot of parents who has their children at school in Port-au-Prince who a lot of problems: children die, has broken leg, arm some injury in the body. We already receive some cases from Port-au-Prince to Hospital Albert Schweitzer of Deschapelles. So we need some helps from united state and prayers so there is a lot of city in the others stranges in anothers country such as : Sainto-Domingo, Cuba, who has a lot of Prolbems also.
NB: So we have some employees of Hospital Albert Schweitzer who have theirs children died in Port-au-Prince last nigth, according their parents.
So, according to the station of radio we listen so there are more then two hundred people died in Port-au-Prince.
Finally, we are waiting for your help and your friends also.
What God has laid up for you flad will not carry away,this the proverb of Haitian,
I will let you know everyting during the day.
God Bless you and the care of you
Pastor Luckner Theklius
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