Liz Taje 13 January at 10:31

Hi Everyone.
Not sure if you heard yet. But yesterday there was a huge earthquake in Haiti. Faith & Love in Action, the home where Jesumene lived was hit hard. For the most part the kids are okay. But one boy is missing. He was at College when the building collapsed. They hope that they can get to him in time. I am friends with him and extremely worried. He is one of the older boys living at the home. He wants to come to Canada to be an engineer.
Much prayer would be appreciated. I'm now looking into going down with Mum & relief teams. I've attached the part of latest email from Marlaine who runs the orphanage, addressing the needs and how you can help. If you are interested in helping or donating, please let me know.

Love,
Liz



Good morning Family & Friends,


We have heard that Jacmel was hit very hard. Many buildings have collapsed and many lives have been lost. We continue to hear of the screaming and crying for help that continued throughout the night and until now. Vanessa has been in touch with one of her old teachers currently in Petion-Ville (a few miles outside of Port-au-Prince) and she reports aftershocks until 3am, continued screaming and crying, complete power outage, and more buildings collapsing.


The situation will intensify the needs for food, medical care, and shelter. We invite our friends to please stand with us to bring assistance to a people already in extreme suffering. If you are able to donate any amount to help provide food, medical care, and other immediate needs, please do so as soon as possible. We do not have details on the extent of damages throughout the country, but Daniel and I are flying back as soon as air travel is cleared.


Opportunities to help:


· Teams: If you are interested in being part of a team to go down immediately, please let us know!!! We will need the manpower to reach as many people as possible.

· Materials: If you can raise funds for the purchase of food, medicine, shelter---please do so! This will be crucial to relief efforts.


I will continue to send updates as we get them but ask everyone to please please keep the people of Haiti in your prayers.


Through Christ who Strengthens us,


Marlaine