I received a call and email today thanking us at Community for the generous financial gift to support the work of Samaritan’s Purse in Haiti. They passed on to me some great links to see what kind of work is going on. So, I’m passing them on to you.
Here are some other updates to pass on:
HOW SAMARITAN’S PURSE IS RESPONDING...
Samaritan’s Purse immediately mobilized the Incident Management Team (IMT). Our efforts-to-date include:
The food surge that Samaritan’s Purse has been conducting in partnership with the World Food Program ended Saturday. On the last day of distribution, the team provided 145 tons of food to 5,791 families—the largest single distribution we have conducted since the earthquake. The total amount of food distributed through this project since Jan. 31 is 1,474 tons to 60,601 families/353,646 people in Cite Soleil.
All cargo from the second ship has been released and removed from the port.
The past few days, the team has worked hard to get the non-food items from the second ship distributed as quickly as possible. The total distributed in the past three days is 4,750 sheets of 20’x20’ plastic, 550 buckets, 48 hygiene kits, and 122 blankets.
The team in Grand Goave has removed a total of 2,550 m3 of rubble, and two buildings in this area—a church and a college—have been completely cleared of debris.
We currently have 170 Haitians employed in a Cash-for-Work program in Grand Goave to clear debris from roads. To date, they have cleared 282m3 of rubble from four miles of roads.
The team has completed 149 latrines in Grand Goave and Leogane. The have also conducted 50 hygiene education sessions in communities receiving latrines.
We have begun assessing the needs in Titanye to determine how we might be able to help in that area.
Team members met with the mayor of Leogane Tuesday.