Monday, February 8, 2010

Haiti Earthquakes Relief

People have been asking, “how can I help?” Here are some options:

El Shaddai Ministries International. ESMI is a ministry led by Dony, Louis and Sharon St. Germain, headquartered in Southern Haiti in the region of Les Cayes. This is a way of giving to the Haitian locals of ESMI who know the needs of their people.

Great Commission Alliance. Gene Summerlin, Trey Summerlin, Mike Hsu and Chris Tran worked with GCA in Feb. to help with distribution efforts in Mirebalais. Mirebalais is a town located 45 minutes outside of PaP, recently having grown from 200,000 to 300,000 people due to refugees coming from PaP. GCA spent ten years doing ministry in Southern Haiti in partnership with ESMI. A few months before the earthquakes, they received a new ministry direction to Central Haiti in Mirebalais.

Nebraska Global Orphan Project. NGOP is a Christ-centered organization well-connected with local Haitian networks.... partners of the NGOP have established a transitional village for orphaned and displaced children in Croix de Bouquets, a small village just outside of Port Au Prince. Gene Summerlin, Trey Summerlin, Mike Hsu and Chris Tran spent some time at the transitional village in Feb. while they were in Haiti.

Food for the Hungry. FH is a gospel-centered ministry with a holistic philosophy of relief and development, currently with first-responders coming from the Dominican Republic. FH is a nationally-recognized organization led by Ben Homan, a graduate of the University of Nebraska.

Partners in Health. PiH was originally founded by humanitarian Paul Farmer, is not a Christian organization, but a group that has done an incredible amount of good in Haiti for over twenty years now.

Medair. A Swiss disaster operations group that normally works outside of the Western Hemisphere; however, a representative of Medair writes, "...the suffering and needs in Haiti are so extreme that we must go outside our normal geographic area of focus and serve our neighbors in Haiti immediately." Pastor Mike Hsu has a dear friend Tabitha Kapic who works for Medair. Tabitha can be contacted at tabitha.kapic@medair.org with questions.

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