Samaritans Purse

Since the earthquake on January 12th, your support – both through your gifts and prayers – has helped Samaritan’s Purse take on an extremely active and helpful role in the disaster relief efforts in Haiti. Here is a summary of how your support is making an impact in Haiti:

Emergency items/shelter: We have been able to distribute blankets, solar flashlights, hygiene kits, shelter kits, plastic for temporary shelter, water purification kits and jerry cans to around 300 families per day.

Water: Our teams have brought in 20 large community water filters, each capable of producing 10,000 gallons of clean drinking water each day.

Medical: We have flown in $130,000 in vaccines for tetanus and other diseases from the US, and we have supplied one of the mission hospitals in Haiti with clean water, fuel and medical supplies and set up a community water filter.

Sanitation: To improve sanitation, we have installed 55 bathing facilities, eight hand-washing stations, and 363 latrines.

Rubble cleanup & employment: To date, our team has removed more than 10,000 cubic meters of rubble and cleared five miles of road, six public buildings, three local businesses, and three churches.

Through this program, we have employed 386 Haitians, 42 percent of whom are women. Samaritan’s Purse has sent 185 staff members and non-medical volunteers to Haiti. We have also sent 90 medical staff members and volunteers, and 22 chaplains from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Rapid Response Team have worked with our team on the ground.

Please continue to pray for the immediate and ongoing relief efforts as well as our long-term strategy for rebuilding communities in Haiti. Pray especially for the two Australians, Trevor Adams and Alistair Clelow who are both serving with the teams in the transitional relief phase.

Posted with tags: 2010 , Channel Seven , Easter , Good Friday , New Life: Three stories of Hope , video on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 12:20 pm and is filed under Emergency Relief, Turn on The Tap, Water & Sanitation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.