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January 15th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Dear All:
We are all shocked about the enormous catastrophe happened this Tuesday afternoon in and around Port-au-Prince.
It was grace of God that my wife Marie-Rose, my son Samuel, and I survived and are doing well. The house I rented in Delmas 33, Rue Jeremie 31, was well built and had no damages, except some items feel to the floor and broke.
Unfortunately the near neighborhood and so most in Port-au-Prince had major loss and damage. I brought with our vehicle more than 50 badly wounded people to several hospitals, but unfortunately almost 20 died before they received some help. The staff house has many cracks and all of us, my family, David, Sebastien, and Marie-Paule living on the street, but we are OK. Unfortunately the workers staff house is almost to collapse and we just went in to take the workers stuff away.
Yesterday we started providing ceramic filters in our nearby neighborhood and Sebastien and David installed plastic BSFs in thebackyard of Matthew 25 house where a refugee camp is setup.
I went to several areas and I can tell you that at least ½ of all multistory buildings collapsed, including the National Palais, Palais de Justice, so many schools, Hotel Montana, Hotel Carib, Hotel Christopher (UN Headquarters), Caribbean Market, other government buildings, main penitentiary (most of the >5,000 inmates escaped), business buildings, and thousands of homes… still thousands under the buildings, road blocked due to debris, a major lack of water, no phone communication, no public power, almost no public transportation, no gasoline, etc.
I seen thousands of corpse left on each site of the streets, so far the Government unable to bring them away and a high riskof other diseases coming along soon. Ten thousands survived left Port-au-Prince on foot or whatever vehicle was available.
Port-au-Prince is no longer as you might know … I don’t have any word … just silence and prayer.
In the meanwhile we got some update from the provinces … there are major issues also in Jacmel, Bainet, Leogane, Petit Goaves, and Carbarete.
I’m very concerned about some of my team members having no contact yet … please pray for their well being.
Please pray for the ten thousands injured people and ten thousands of lost souls.
January 17th, 2010 at 1:03 am
Greetings from the Kootenays. The news is getting around here that Dave, Marie-Paul and Sabastian are there and functioning as best they can to help out. Kathy got word to Nelson. There is a lot of attention being paid to the tragedy in the main stream media. We wish the best for you all.
If this Pure Water website can keep functioning for sending word back and forth, let us know what would be most helpful to organize for at this end. We’ll see what we can do from this frustratingly long distance.
Bill Wells,
Kaslo. BC
January 17th, 2010 at 2:16 am
To David, Sebastien and Marie-Paule,
We are very glad to hear that you are all well, and send you our support acoss the miles. We are also glad to hear that you and your companeiros are able to carry on with your work – it is obviously needed more than ever now. When you get a chance, let us know how it is going, and anything we might be able to do to provide assistance from back here.
With our love and hope for your ongoing work – Greg and Donna
January 17th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Dear Bill and Greg,
Thank you for your comments. David, Marie-Paule, Sebastian, and our other staff members have been doing their best to help those around them. If you could email me, I can send you some information on how people in Canada are working to help PWW. I do know that David’s family has been in contact with the media in Nelson. We have been so impressed with the support from everyone. Please feel free to contact us at – jamin.peck@purewaterfortheworld.org
Thank you again,
Jamin Peck
Executive Assistant
Pure Water for the World
January 17th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Here are a few of the articles and TV segments that have been written and aired about Pure Water since the earthquake.
Burlington Free Press-
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100113044
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100116/NEWS02/1160312/Burlington-Web-site-directs-Haiti-quake-aid
Rutland Herald-
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100114/NEWS04/1140367
NECN-
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2010/01/14/VT-nonprofit-unsure-of-peers/1263509540.html
WNYT- This was a clip about the Glens Falls Rotary Club. This is Charles Adam’s hometown, and Leo Rigby traveled to Haiti with PWW in Nov 08
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S1365234.shtml?cat=11800&articleID=6255
PBS- PBS was able to contact Roman Cipus via email.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/01/race-against-time-to-distribute-haitian-aid.html
January 17th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
À Marie-Paule et Sébastien
Bon courage. Nous pensons à vous très fort. Laissez-nous savoir si nous pouvons faire quelque-chose. On vous embrasse.
Normand, Céline, Jude et Jérôme
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January 18th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
So happy to hear from so many familiar names and wonder if there is word from Lowell and Elder. Any word of Mission of Mercy? Also City of Solei is not mentioned, is there news. I pray daily if not hourly for all in Haiti and all on there way. Praise be to God so many have learned about this world
January 19th, 2010 at 11:14 am
Hello Tim,
Thank you for your support of Pure Water for the World. At this time communication with staff members in Haiti is sporadic. We have not heard about the schools or homes in Cite Soleil, but we will continue to pass along the information we receive.
Thank you again for your support.
Jamin Peck
Executive Assistant
Pure Water for the World