Help for Haiti

In light of recent events and our recent post about COCINA, a non-profit organization in Ouaniminthe, Haiti, we wanted to share information about how you may help with disaster relief.  COCINA’s website, www.haiticocina.org, allows you to donate by check or through PayPal.  From now through April, all PayPal donations will go directly to earthquake relief.  COCINA plans to do the following through donations they receive:

• Hugues, the director, along with some of their medical staff will load a bus full of water, food, basic medicines, and triage supplies.  They’ll make the 10-15 hour drive to Port-au-Prince and treat the wounded and sick and give away supplies.  While there, they also plan to search for several of their former students that were in the capital city looking for jobs.
• Another mission of their trip to Port-au-Prince is to bring back Ouaniminthe locals that have no way to get back or have had any contact with their families.
• Water and other necessities have heavily increased in price since the earthquake, and with all banks closed, cash is inaccessible.
• Over the next several weeks and months, many Haitians will migrate North to find a new place to call home.  Ouaniminthe will be one of those towns that will receive new residents, and with it, new needs.  Children will need homes and schooling; many will need medical attention.  Through the Institution Univers and Univers Medical Clinic, COCINA hopes to meet those new needs.

Whether it’s to COCINA or other organizations such as the American Red Cross, please consider doing what you can to help this hurting country.  And above all else, please keep them in your prayers.