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Report on the GNYC Disaster Team - 2.13.10
Kelvin has been sleeping for the past 12 hours, he really need to rest. He is a member of the special Team AYES Corps (Adventist Youth Emergency Services) that the Youth Ministries and Adventist community Services start three years ago in our conference.
Yesterday we had to literally bring Kelvin to our van to go back to Dominican Republic, the Marines Coronel and the ADRA volunteers express their gratitude for the work that Samuel. Reginald and Kelvin are doing.
Samuel has decided to stay for two more weeks, he is coming for two days to Santo Domingo to rest for two days, he has made very good connections with the government. He is an Elder at the French Getshemane Church in Brooklyn.
Pr. Reginald Barthelemy is improving his health condition and has been working very hard especially in the streets coordinating the order where thousands of people are trying to get something to eat. He is coming back to New York on Wednesday 17. He is a pastor in the Franco-Haitian ministry in our conference.
Included are some reports of the work that our team has been doing with ADRA in the food distribution program.
One Month Later
BBC
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Saturday, 13 February 2010
Thousands have gathered to pray for the earthquake victims
Haiti has held ceremonies for the victims of the devastating earthquake which hit the country a month ago, killing at least 217,000 people.
Thousands prayed at the exact time the quake struck, on 12 January.
Earlier, Catholic and Voodoo leaders joined other religious figures for a service near the ruined National Palace in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
More than a million Haitians remain homeless, just as the rainy season is due to begin.
Haiti's President Rene Preval has vowed that his country will live on.
"Haiti will not die, Haiti must not die," he told mourners at the main service in Port-au-Prince. "Wipe away your tears to rebuild Haiti.
"Today, allow me as citizen Rene Preval, the man, the father of a family, to address you to say that I cannot find the words to speak of this immense pain.
"It is in your courage that we will find the strength to go on."
Other prayer services were held across the country, including one at the site of a mass grave north of the capital, in Titanyen, which is believed to hold tens of thousands of victims.
The BBC's Mike Wooldridge says the act of national reflection comes as one of the largest humanitarian operations ever mounted grapples with challenges on many fronts.
He says a heavy downpour on the eve of the anniversary provided a foretaste of the misery that lies ahead for the many people who still have only the flimsiest shelter in impromptu camps, if the pace of getting out more tents and stronger shelter materials is not stepped up before the start of the rainy season.
In the biggest of the camps that sprang up in the capital after the earthquake, people are still living under sheeting strung across wooden poles.
The government says the seasonal rains could be the biggest threat now to the nation's attempts at recovery.
The European Union has proposed a military mission to step up the provision of shelter before the rains worsen.
Ruben Merino
Director, Adventist Community Health Services
Greater New York Conference
41-26 58th Street
Woodside, NY 11377
Phone: 718-565-0850
Fax: 347-761-3042
Director, Adventist Community Health Services
Greater New York Conference
41-26 58th Street
Woodside, NY 11377
Phone: 718-565-0850
Fax: 347-761-3042