From the AP via the Miami Herald:
The air was choked with memory Wednesday in this city where everyone lost a brother, a child, a cousin or a friend. One year after the earthquake, Haitians marched down empty, rubble-lined streets singing hymns and climbed broken buildings to hang wreaths of flowers.
The landscape is much as the quake left it, thanks to a reconstruction effort that has yet to begin addressing the intense need. But the voices were filled with hope for having survived a year that seemed to get worse at every turn.
"We've had an earthquake, hurricane, cholera, but we are still here, and we are still together," said Charlemagne Sintia, 19, who joined other mourners at a soccer stadium that served as an open-air morgue after the quake and later housed a tent camp.
The Haitian government estimates the number of deaths at 316,000. Bodies are still being found in the rubble, so the number will go higher. Approximately one million people remain homeless.
The people of Haiti still need our help. I give through Episcopal Relief and Development, because the organization has low overhead, and the donations go where they are needed, to help those who need help. Also ERD pays local people to do the work of cleaning-up and rebuilding.
Mimi, I had a look at the ERD website, but their programs don't specifically seem to be about Haiti - is there a particular program you give to?
ReplyDeleteCathy, the link in my post takes me directly to the ERD programs in Haiti. Doesn't it work that way for you?
ReplyDeleteAh, I get you. Yes it does, but when I looked at the regular monthly donations part of the site, thinking it might be good to give regularly, it didn't seem to say anything about Haiti. Actually I've just spotted that they're only accepting US credit cards anyway (annoyingly).
ReplyDeleteCathy, that IS annoying. I guess you'll have to find a charity on your side of the pond that gives aid to Haiti.
ReplyDeleteI actually already give to charities that are working in Haiti but the money goes to them in a general way rather than specifically to Haiti projects. I might try to track down something more specific.
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