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Port Au Prince, Haiti Missions Photo's
I just returned from Port au Prince, Haiti. I joined a group of guys and went down on a mission trip to help out for a week. I will be adding many videos, photo's and blog postings over the next couple weeks. For now here is a bit of what is to come.
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Port Au Prince, Haiti Missions Trip Video [first cut]
I created this video for friends and family to watch and see some of what we did down in Haiti last week. I am working on another edit with much more story board and many other things that will go with this video but more in depth.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0. The quake occurred Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The Haitian government reported that an estimated 316,000 people had died, 300,000 injured and 1,000,000 made homeless. It was also estimated 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed.
Amongst the widespread devastation and damage throughout Port au Prince and elsewhere, vital infrastructure necessary to respond to the disaster was severely damaged or destroyed. This included all hospitals in the capital; air, sea, and land transport facilities; and communication systems.
Roads were blocked with debris or the surfaces were broken. The deputy mayor of Leogane reported that 90% of the town’s buildings had been destroyed.
In the nights following the earthquake, many people in Haiti slept in the streets, on pavements, in cars, or in makeshift shantytowns either because their houses had been destroyed, or they feared standing structures would not withstand aftershocks. Construction standards are very low in Haiti; the country has no building codes.
Slow distribution of resources in the days after the earthquake resulted in major violence. There were also accounts of looters wounded or killed by vigilantes and neighborhoods that had constructed their own roadblock barricades.
Port Au Prince’s morgues were quickly overwhelmed with tens of thousands of bodies having to be buried in mass graves.
Many organizations such as Global Partners [who we went with] have dedicated themselves to help the relief project of Haiti for the last two years and continue to rebuild Haiti as we speak.
I typed this up pretty quick so you can get a better idea if you had none about how bad it is still in Haiti. I will be starting a new web page dedicated to Missions, helping and how you can get involved if you would like.
Thanks for watching and reading. Together we can make this world a better place for people in need.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0. The quake occurred Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The Haitian government reported that an estimated 316,000 people had died, 300,000 injured and 1,000,000 made homeless. It was also estimated 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed.
Amongst the widespread devastation and damage throughout Port au Prince and elsewhere, vital infrastructure necessary to respond to the disaster was severely damaged or destroyed. This included all hospitals in the capital; air, sea, and land transport facilities; and communication systems.
Roads were blocked with debris or the surfaces were broken. The deputy mayor of Leogane reported that 90% of the town’s buildings had been destroyed.
In the nights following the earthquake, many people in Haiti slept in the streets, on pavements, in cars, or in makeshift shantytowns either because their houses had been destroyed, or they feared standing structures would not withstand aftershocks. Construction standards are very low in Haiti; the country has no building codes.
Slow distribution of resources in the days after the earthquake resulted in major violence. There were also accounts of looters wounded or killed by vigilantes and neighborhoods that had constructed their own roadblock barricades.
Port Au Prince’s morgues were quickly overwhelmed with tens of thousands of bodies having to be buried in mass graves.
Many organizations such as Global Partners [who we went with] have dedicated themselves to help the relief project of Haiti for the last two years and continue to rebuild Haiti as we speak.
I typed this up pretty quick so you can get a better idea if you had none about how bad it is still in Haiti. I will be starting a new web page dedicated to Missions, helping and how you can get involved if you would like.
Thanks for watching and reading. Together we can make this world a better place for people in need.
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