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Families flee Port-au-Prince to the safety of Piton
The violence in Haiti seems to reach new peaks every week. Port-au-Prince is a particularly hot spot. In recent weeks, about 25 families have fled PAP and ended up on Piton mountain in either the Piton or Piton West villages. The community has welcomed these families and are doing what they can to provide resources and a place to live to these refugees.
One particular family consists of a blind parent and 5 children, one of whom is disabled. The community is working to provide them with a home utilizing materials at hand, without asking us for assistance.
As a result of this influx, we have about 30 new children attending the community schools in Piton and Piton West. They need supplies to enable them to learn alongside the other children.
We need to raise about $2,000 to help accommodate these extra students.
On a personal note, Piton has long been a refuge for me. When there in person, it's like a homecoming. The peace of the village and its inhabitants is refreshing. When circumstances keep me in the U.S. from my own bad health to Haiti's political upheaval, it's Piton that keeps me motivated. In fact, when my health has been particularly bad, it's Piton that has gotten me out of bed some days I'd have rather stayed under the covers. That's because the ethos of the villages of Piton and Piton West is one of collaboration, progress, and Christian love.
As Americans, we see our Piton friends as being less fortunate than we. Do you ever think of them as being something beyond the recipients of charity? How about the givers of charity? This ethos of collaboration, progress, and Christian love is what has welcomed families from Port-au-Prince.
Let's help Piton/Piton West be a safe haven to others in Haiti, a place where violence-weary families can go to live in relative peace and provide education and food for their children.
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Medication Needs
There has been a flare up of cholera on Piton mountain and Samuel is working to educate and raise awareness. To do this, he needs sanitation supplies. General medical needs have also increased in recent months, as well as the costs of medications.
We usually spend around $1000 every 4 months or so to keep the clinic stocked with basic medications. Currently, we are in cold/flu season with cholera and COVID thrown into the mix. We are refreshing our stock every couple months lately.
I'd like to raise $1,000 specifically for medications and sanitation supplies.
Vulnerable children in need of support
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The community comes together to build shelter for families leaving Port-au-Prince
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"I mean business"
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Aid to Infrastructure; tomorrow to be exact. A decade ago, Tom and I traveled up an impossibly beautiful, quite steep, and inhospitably rugged-to-vehicles mountain to visit Samuel Pamzou's village. He wanted us to visit because his village needed healthcare. When we arrived on foot, we found the village-center community school with it's roof in the floor. That moment is when Tom and I silently committed to create Aid to Infrastructure and build a life together. Today, we're watching our adopted country burn. Literally. I don't need to post a news story here because you will see plenty in your news feeds. It's been important to me these past 14 years of being involved in Haiti to focus on what's right in the country and the good we can do; because it's all too easy to find reports of what's wrong. Our friends on the mountain are relatively safe due to their remote location. But it's foolish to pretend they aren't affected. Today I feel a dissonance between my desire to promote our new sponsorship program and the other good things happening in Piton and my distress at what's happening in the broader country. We have ATI family in the U.S. and Haiti. Those of us in the U.S. feel helpless; and it's hard for me to imagine what it's like being in country. Please keep Haiti in your prayers for mercy and anything that resembles peace. If a solution exists, it won't be a simple one -- and can only be achieved with the help of our Lord Abba. Please prayerfully remember the plight of the ordinary, law-abiding people of Haiti who are caught in an untenable, violent situation. Thanks for being here,
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