Showing posts with label haiti news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haiti news. Show all posts

Friday, November 5, 2010

Haiti Hurricane

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U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm center was expected to pass west of Haiti on Friday. Meteorologists warn that Thomas could mph with wind speeds of 135, up to 25 inches of rain in some areas so that flooding and dangerous mudslides. But should not the country suffered directly responsible hit.Government urge residents in vulnerable areas to an emergency shelter and relief agencies have been working all week to the survivors of the earthquake of January with a parade
security. However, some people kept booming in the tent camps in Port-au-Prince were to leave for fear of losing their property if they, or ruled out a return to the camps.The earthquake has displaced more than health officials people.UN assets of a million to prevent the floods contaminated water and unhygienic conditions of the storm probably a cholera epidemic in Haiti, which has already killed more than 440 deteriorating warnings are in effect for people.Hurricane Haiti, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands and the province Guantanamo, Cuba. Support groups are stockpiling supplies in the country. The UN urged the international community for emergency aid and said that half a million people are affected by the storm.The U.S. Navy, the USS Iwo Jima sent to Haiti to help humanitarian aid.

Hurricane Tomas

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I have been in constant contact with Providence House as they brace for Tomas. Everyone is fine at this point but I can hear anxiety in their voices. It is hard to have the people you love the most in such a vulnerable situation. Madeleine, my sister-friend who grew up in Haiti and now lives in St. Paul and has a ministry in Haiti, wrote a beautiful post this morning as her "mind was restless and from time to time replaying the memories of hurricane Allen in 1980". You can read her sweet words here.

Please pray for our friends who have become family to us in Haiti and especially for the thousands of vulnerable people who live in tent cities.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Cholera

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Cholera: After the devastating earthquake that plunged Haiti into crisis in January this year, health and relief agencies feared the outbreak of contagious disease.
Haiti somehow managed to dodge the specter of a fatal water-borne disease outbreak until earlier this week, when a fatal diarrhea-causing disease struck ferociously, rapidly causing over 1,500 people to fall ill. Over 140 people have died reported Reuters AlertNet. Haiti's President Preval confirmed cholera as the cause of the outbreak Friday morning. This is the first time Haiti has seen cholera for 100 years. Speaking to Reuters, Preval said
  
"I can confirm it is cholera. Now we are making sure people are fully aware of precautionary measures they have to take to prevent contamination."