Earthquake – How Your Donations Are Being Used
Your dollars are bringing hope and healing to those left devastated by the earthquake of Jan.12, 2010. We are working with those left destitute in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, who have somehow been missed by the larger groups, supplying much needed rice. Funds are also being used to assist widows, orphans and children in critical […]
Earthquake: 02/10/10
Minute For Mission
On January 12, 2010 the world stopped for Haiti., as the 7th most devastating earthquake in recorded history struck this, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The death toll will never be fully known…but it will reach over 300,000 I believe.
Earthquake: 01/23/10
Update from Dr. Campbell:
I have left Haiti. For now…
I sit at my computer, thinking of what I have seen the last week, and what it all means. The suffering of those who remain is something that I pray will not be forgotten, passed over, as time continues on. The faces of those whose empty hollow eyes speak of a hunger much deeper than we can ever understand…these are part of the story of this country that must be remembered.
Earthquake: 01/22/10
Update from Dr. Campbell in Port-Au-Prince:
She is 14 years old. Beautiful. The horror of the last week stored within her heart, she is unable to let it out, unable to understand, unable to accept that only
she and her sister remain–the rest gone, lost in the quake. She is 14 years old. We brought her into surgery to clean her wounds, to try and close the deep cuts that had torn her apart. As she began to awaken, all of the pain began to pour out, to be released by the medicine that had been placed into her vein. “Mama, mama,
mama….Jesus, I wait for you, Jesus, I am here, Jesus help your child—you are all I have left–please help me, please help me, please help me…”
Earthquake: 01/21/10
Update from Dr. Campbell in Port-Au-Prince:
Sitting outside on the ramp this night I look up and see the golden moon, so beautiful, shining down in the darkness. But the beauty is short as I hear the sounds of suffering coming from the rooms filled with suffering patients—those who have survived the horror of the disaster, now trying to find tomorrow as the pain of today seems to never end.
The young man lay with tears filling his sunken eyes,, waiting to have his mangled leg removed. He grabbed my hand—take care of me—I love you –hugging me so tightly.
Earthquake: 01/20/10
Update from Dr. Campbell in Port-Au-Prince:
Standing in the hospital just before dawn the sensation of swaying came from no where as the walls buckled with the earthquake. Patients began screaming, praying, sobbing as they ran from the building with memories of the week before fresh. Chaos. Broken bodies carried on backs, wheelchairs, pieces of wood. As I held a young man’s leg I could feel the bones moving in my hands, his cries loud in my ears.
Earthquake: 01/19/10
Update from Dr. Campbell in Port-Au-Prince:
Broken bodies continue to pour in as people learn we are here……broken bodies, broken lives fill the halls and wings, never stopping. Desperately all those here try to stop the infection that covers every open fracture, every rotting wound. The smell of gangrene fills me this night as I think of the faces of those I have seen this day.
Earthquake: 01/18/10
Update from Dr. Campbell in Port-Au-Prince:
Driving through the crumbling city, buildings and streets destroyed. People everywhere walking with faces that speak of a horror I cannot imagine-exhausted, nothing left. Yet on the corner a man sold sugarcane, and a few were beginning to walk around in the safety of daylight hours…we are at Kings Hospital in PAP–Jeanne,Dr. David
Hopper and myself.
Earthquake: 01/17/10
Update from Dr. Campbell in Port-Au-Prince:
Noise. Noise surrounding me, entering into every pore; dust flying, wind whipping my hair. People scrambling as planes fly in and out, rapidly unloading as they must leave so another can land.