A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.
Several eyewitnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where concrete-block homes line steep hillsides. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening, but the U.S. State Department has been told to expect "serious loss of life," department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington.
"The only thing I can do now is pray and hope for the best," the ambassador, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN.
HealingHaiti.org is urgently seeking emergency funding to help those in Cite Soliel and Titanyen were our orphanages are. We have one water truck delivering clean water in Cite Soleil and are trying to get our second water truck up and running so that we can deploy it along with our dump truck and bobcat where needed. Please prayerfully consider an urgent donation.
100% of your donation will make it to Haiti.
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Details Salon, Feb 21, 2010, 12-5 pm.
All service providers will perform our services from 12-5 and 100% off proceeds from services will be donated to healinghaiti.org.
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Can you imagine living with no clean water, no food, no electricity, no sewer system. No education. No bed. No family. This is the reality that the orphan children at Grace Village come from.
You can help save the lives of these children, who have lost their families to extreme poverty, hurricanes and AIDS by providing food, nurturing, prayer, education and health care with a monthly Grace Village Orphanage sponsorship of $40.
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Did You Know?
• Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and 90 min. from the US by air
• According to UNICEF, only 30% of Haitians have access to clean drinking water
• 80% of Haitians live in poverty making less than $2 a day
• 1 in 8 children in Haiti will die before the age of 5 from treatable and/or curable diseases
• Life expectancy in Haiti is 52 years
• Over 50% of Haitians do not know how to read or write
• Only half of school age children in Haiti attend school
• Food prices in Haiti have increased over 100% since 2008