Pascale Gwenaelle NelHaiti is in constant hardship and that situation saddens our heart. Just when we think that we couldn’t go lower, and a natural disaster exposes what we couldn’t hide anymore. Most of the time we feel overwhelmed, because our hands are so tided. We can never do enough for our brother and sister.
When that earthquake hit Haiti on that Saturday, it automatically brought us back to that painful memory of January 12, 2010. We knew the pain of losing it all, not only a home or a so called comfort or even family members but the pain of losing hope. In only a few seconds all collapsed, all disappeared…
It is because we knew how people can be powerless that we rushed to les Cayes, despite the fact that Martissant is still unsteady, and without even knowing if we will be safe or even alive. The urged to help those who are in need is more important than ever. Even when you have an idea of how bad the situation is, when you go it is a different reality. When you see the damages, and you hear the different kind of stories, from how all a whole family died to how only one member survived in another one. From where they were when it happened to how they survived the multiple seismic aftershocks. From how they lose their home to how they now live under a tent (for the luckiest families) or under the stars (for those who haven’t received any kind of help). The stories are really divergent from one place to another, if in one locality people are fighting for food and water to survive whenever the truck pull out with help, in the other one, people are watching powerless the truck full of help passing by to go help other places, and they are crying to receive some help too.
We were able to visit three different localities, Camp Perrin, Plaine Martin, Saut Mathurine. We went there on September 1st, 2021 and those families didn’t receive any kind of help before since the earthquake. The amount of water, clothes, tent and cover that we were able to collect and brought there were unfortunately not enough for the need of those people. We went there also with the intention to come back with more after we explore the city and see the need.
This our cry for help for those families who lost everything, our cry for help for those families who are waiting hopefully for a generous hand to help them rebuild their houses and reconstruct their lives. There are many ways that the government is working to respond to that natural disaster but it is not enough. If you feel in your heart that you need to do more like us, to help those who lost everything, you can immediately contact us in a message, or in person via a phone call or donate directly in our website.
Please hear our cry and thanks to those who already contributed!
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