Rapid Responders
Boyer Writes will be sharing with you some of the Rapid Responders to emergency situations like the one now happening in Haiti. This is for information that can be found at the individual websites, not an endorsement of all activities. Continue to look to trusted organizations and church affiliations for credible ways to donate and to help. As the emergency continues, we will add more information to this blog.
To those traveling to Haiti to bring supplies, medical help and spiritual support, our prayers and support are with you. From Bill and Nancy Boyer of Boyer Writes.
Look for updates.
Click here for video on Rapid Response Team Chaplains and message to why the Response Team was set up
Our prayers are with the family of Rev.Sam Dixon, head of relief with UMCOR who died when the hotel he was staying in collapsed.
Click here: Episcopal Relief and Development
See video of Haiti, the people and some facts before the quake. This may have been as things were just before the devastating quake struck this small island nation. They desperately need the world’s help.
- 25 doctors to every 10,000 people
- 80% unemployed
- poorest nation in the western hemisphere
- 30% read and write
- 1 in 5 children die before the age of 5
- half of the people are under-nourished
- plagued by political turmoil and other natural disasters