Medair in Haiti: Last Weekend

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Since we last updated you:

Roger has returned safely to Jacmel after a visit home with his family and a speaking engagement at Q Gathering in Chicago about Medair’s work in Haiti

More Haitian families have been moved into secure shelter

$50K of funds raised in this campaign have already been transferred to Medair Haiti and the team is grateful and encouraged by your support

Medair Haiti is partnering with Salvation Army, Save the Children UK and the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to serve families in the Sud Est

Our team, and most NGOs working to rebuild Haiti, continue to face great challenges with the logistics of getting building materials into the country. Please pray specifically for that.

Below are the stories of the Samedy and Lapin families. Part of the gift we give to Haiti is listening to their stories. And part of the gift they give to us is sharing those stories. As we enter the last weekend of this campaign with over $100K needed to reach our goal, please let us know if we can get you any information or answer any questions. Thank you for praying, giving and sharing this work.

Thank you for walking with us and them,

Tabitha Kapic

National Director

Medair United States

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Madame Letois Samedy is 65 years old and lives with her sister, children and grandchildren. She spoke with Emma, Medair’s Field Communications Officer:

“I didn’t know it was an earthquake, I thought it was a storm. I flung my arms into the air, shaking, and calling out Jesus, Jesus...I tried to get out of the rubble and then I saw my son Evince, I hugged him, I was hurting, I couldn’t move. He helped me out and laid me down in the street...we were all moved to Pinchinat sports field...In the camp we got 4 wood sticks from our broken home, made holes to put the sticks in and put a sheet over it, to live under....Thank you for this shelter. I go to church everyday, I pray for you, for strength for you.”

Evince Samedy, 35, son of Letois, he has two children and there are ten people in the household.

“I couldn’t guess how long we would be in Pinchinat Camp, I had no money to help my family, everything was lost inside the house...We first met Medair when they were on our street, they saw our house was destroyed and started talking with us. Medair is doing something good, they are the first international organization coming to help, coming to talk to us.”

“I am so happy about this new shelter. I am so happy because I could not have provided this for my family by myself. I have no job and it would take me 5 or 10 years to achieve a shelter like this by myself. My mother nor aunt are working, I am the man, I should be working but I have no job. Sometimes I get casual labor two days in the month. I want to thank you, thank you.”

Madame Lapin is the mother of eight children. Her husband died in the flooding in 1984.

“When the earthquake happened, I was inside the house, I was going crazy, I didn’t know what was happening. I got out of the house with my children but my niece, five years [old], she died under the house next door...People from the Mayor’s office told us to go to the airfield and after 3 days we all moved to Pinchinat sports field. We had no food and no water. In these first days I was traumatized, crying, so stressed.

Madame Lapin
“Because my husband died there is only me to help my family. This shelter from Medair will help us a lot, I am so happy, we are not out in the rain anymore. We will bring our things back from Pinchinat camp a little at a time, walking back and forth with our things. We don’t have much anymore, everything that was in the house is now rubbish.”


	Between Friday, April 23, and Monday, May 17, we ask you to partner with Medair United States to raise $300,000 for Haiti. Read more on our campaign to move Haitians into shelter before hurricane season.

3 weeks
30,000 people
300,000 dollars
Medair in Haiti: One House at a Time

Original Campaign Launch, April 23, 2010:

Medair and local Haitians put up 56 t-shelters
340 more Haitian men, women and children slept in hurricane and earthquake resistant t-shelters
Our Medair team unloaded by hand and stored over a thousand of t-shelters arriving by sea
USAID/OFDA gave Medair final approval on a large grant from the American people to get nearly 30,000 people into shelter by hurricane season

With news of the grant award, our team experienced great joy and a sober resolve. The scale of Haiti’s disaster is massive and the interventions needed to help the people are massive as well.

Right now, we need you...

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Between Friday, April 23, and Monday, May 17, we ask you to partner with Medair United States to raise $300,000 for Haiti.