Pain & destruction have a way of lingering on…….
Think about a time in your life when a tragedy happened. Did people ‘move on’ before your life normalized? Trauma never lies anything normal…new ‘ normals’ have to be made. AND that requires help. Without it, hope diminishes. Please consider how you can help. Below are measuring tools to understand just how far our money will go and just how many lives can be improved. Let’s change some lives!!!
Although the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated this island nation occurred over a year ago, the needs of the Haitian people are still great. Experts predict it will take at least another ten years before life for Haitians resembles "rebuilt."
- Rubble still lines the streets in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.
- Schools meet under tents or under open skies.
- Life in tent cities, with overcrowding and inadequate sanitation, has become a "new normal.”
- Cholera has reached epidemic proportions in recent months. (According to Haiti’s Ministry of Health (MSPP), since last November over 267,000 people have been infected with the disease, and the death toll has now reached 4,747.)
- In many areas food and water are in short supply.
The NMI Convention Project Offering will be received on August 2, 2011, at the Virginia District Nazarene Camp in Buckingham. Please place your offering in the large water bottle in the foyer now through the month of July.
Your gift of $10.00 will provide beans and rice to feed a family for a week.
Your gift of $60.00 will provide 100 gallons of clean bottled water.
Your gift of $100.00 will provide 8 people with a tent for shelter.
Your gift of $200.00 will provide fuel to transport items like food and water to those in need.
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