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Welcome to Haiti ARISE
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We are glad to have you visit Haiti ARISE Ministries. While here we invite you to peruse our site and see what exciting things are happening in Grand-Goave, Haiti. Lives are being impacted and changed!
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"Something in the Hand, Something in the Heart..." This is a link to a video written by Haiti ARISE team member, Jennifer Hartley, edited by Nathan Moyer and produced with the help of Christian Life Fellowship media department in Aberdeen, WA.
HAITI ARISE Boards Meet to Plan Earthquake Disaster Response
CALGARY, ALBERTA- February, 2, 2010- Haiti ARISE Ministries (HAM) has announced an Earthquake Disaster Response Plan developed during a two-day meeting in Calgary, Alberta between the United States and Canadian boards of the non-profit humanitarian organization. (Click on the link above to see a more detailed overview of the plan)
 Darrell Damron and James Roberts, Vice-Presidents of the HAM Board of Directors, announced that HAM is responding to the earthquake disaster immediately by providing water, food, temporary shelter, emergency medical care, counseling services, and security. HAM will also send a team to Grand-Goave to assess the water quality in the wells, sanitation needs, building safety, medical needs, logistical capabilities, telecommunications and computer capabilities. The assessment team will be comprised of volunteer specialists who will compile recommendations to guide HAM’s disaster response and re-building efforts. Wherever possible, HAM intends to partner with other organizations to provide relief without duplicating efforts.
Pastor Marc Honorat, founder of the organization, reported that another humanitarian organization, Samaritan’s Purse, has already partnered with the ministry and is currently operating from the HAM campus in Grand-Goave. Mr. Honorat spoke emotionally regarding his terrifying experience during the earthquake and of the heartbreaking encounters he had following the disaster.
“The night after the earthquake, a six year old boy wandered up to us crying. When we asked him where his parents were, all he could say was that they we gone…they were dead. We need to help all these children whose parents have been killed in the earthquake.” He added that plans for a children’s home village with family modeled residences had been scheduled for construction in 2015. “Now we ask ourselves, ‘Can we wait to provide homes for these children? No, we can’t wait.’ So we have moved up our plans to build the children’s home village as soon as possible.”
He explained that in addition to the children’s home village, HAM will give higher priority to plans to construct a medical clinic with emphasis on rehabilitation to provide ongoing care for those who have become amputees, were severely injured and have suffered emotional trauma due to the quakes. Also plans to build an elementary and secondary school have been accelerated to compensate for the loss of other local area schools. HAM will also rebuild the technical school and resume classes in carpentry, auto-mechanics, electrical and welding. HAM has already resumed church activities and community transformation efforts such as providing clean water wells, distributing food and clothing, and educating Haitians in good health, hygiene, and sanitation practices. They also have plans to drill new community water wells to help meet the supply need. In these efforts as well, HAM intends to partner with other organizations to provide materials and accomplish program objectives.
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Written by Jennifer Hartley
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Urban Thrift To Host 2nd Haiti Fundraiser- February 6, 2010
On Saturday, January 16, Urban Thrift raised nearly $6,000 for Haiti Arise Ministries -- an amount that will be doubled after the organization qualified for the federal government's pledge to match individual Canadian donations up to $50 million. Thrift store owner Elisa Humphreys says the fundraiser was a type of therapy for everyone involved.
"It's hard to deal with these kinds of horrific global events," said Humphreys. "People are just coming and shopping here today knowing that 100 per cent of proceeds of today's sales are going to Haiti Arise Ministries -- it's a way for us all to feel better."
Urban Thrift plans to hold a second fundraising event for Haiti ARISE this coming Saturday, February 6th. "After the success of the last Haiti Day, we wanted to make a commitment to hold one at least once a month for the next while to help Haiti in the Disaster Relief efforts." said Humphreys. All sales will go toward Haiti ARISE's Disaster Relief efforts in Haiti as the store plans to work long-term with the organization to offer whatever aid possible to the disaster ravaged country.
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Last Updated on Monday, 08 February 2010 00:08 |
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Written by Lisa Honorat
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Still Stunned Though News Slows
The events of the last four days have been a revival again of emotion, from exhiliration at plans coming together to intense despair in facing post-tramatic stress. After knowing that our staff and ministry were preserved with no deaths in our immediate circle of Haitian relationships, I had clung to that as a sort of coping mechanism to get through the past week. Especially with our baby coming and being born and the amount of energy that alone spent, I just had to cling to some sense of hope in the midst of all the despair. As news has slowed a bit too, we also had to take some time away from even watching any new reports. Marc has been experiencing a lot of effects of the emotional trauma, with recurring dreams of earthquake events, and disquieted fear striking him each time there is a loud noise or a small shaking. When we were in church last weekend, the large organ began to play a deep base and Marc suddenly braced himself as his heart jumped. Since Marc has returned I think I also took a position to be a support to him, putting my own anxieties and emotional weariness behind me. This weekend though, the events on the ground in Haiti became raw and real to me again. We watched a documentary by Marc Driscoll of Seattle Mars Hill Church of the condition of churches throughout PAP. I think I had kind of convinced myself too, as another way of coping with the shock of the whole disaster, that the churches must have been preserved. I knew that the majority of Catholic churches had been destroyed, but had not heard much of the Christian churches or of people who wer believers dying. Well, watching the stories unfold of some churches that experienced tremendous loss of both their facilities and congregations was too much for me to bear.
I suddenly realized that there may be many more people that we know and love that may have been lost. Just days before the quake, we held our annual Pastor's conference. Bob McGregor and Henry Mears of MFI who were our guest speakers, had left on Monday, just a day before! We have yet to hear from the majority of these pastors and their congregations, their churches, their homes. There is still so much unknown.This brought me to another complete breakdown. The trauma will take a long time to work through- and I was not even there, on the ground, losing my own children and home...
So, I know it has been three or four days since we have gotten news out to you again. We are working on it, believe me. We have lots of very exciting things to share, plans and progress of what is happening. Yet, I have not been able to emotional sustain much more. As I sit down in front of the computer, my mind goes blank, I don't know what to convey. Fortunately, we have an amazing team around us, both in Haiti and in North America and you will be hearing from them too as we progress. So please keep praying and keep Haiti in your heart. Don't let it slip away like news of yesterday. We will be sharing again with you all shortly! I know that there is much hope in this desperate situation and we will hold onto that.
-2/1/10
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Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 15:47 |
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