This photo collage shows three boxes of medical supplies being sent to doctors in Hinche and many boxes of clothing, shoes, toiletries and other items being readied by Gabi, Barb, Mme Destorel, Carla and Rachel with two of Rachel's friends. There were 41 boxes and counting when I was last at the depot! These supplies were sent in by small private plane yesterday directly to Pignon from Cape Coral Florida. They are the gift of at least 2 of HAFF's supporting churches in the area. And this was only half the shipment! The other half was given to Jean Jean and Kristie at UCI. The boxes will be made available to the families who have received refugees.
But wait! There's more! Another plane came in today. And another will come tomorrow. Colin was sorting boxes in the back of the truck while Carla and Rachel's friends Evens and Wilnot start sorting more medical supplies and toiletries.
These items will be a huge blessing to the refugees who have often come with a small back pack or even just the clothes on their back. This is the start of normalcy for so many. Thank you all who helped and thank you all who are helping in similar ways in other areas.
In the mean time I have been working on getting over 30 letters out to the people that we are sending to see the eye surgery team at the Pignon hospital in February. The letters will single out the people we have made prior arrangements for from the people who have just walked in that day. This is a great privilege the Des Moines eye team has given us and a great blessing to the people in the communities we serve.
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Hello. My name is Kyle Moore and I am reaching out to offer the services of myself and one other male. We are both former Marines who have extensive training in all phases of disaster response. We are both engineers by trade but also have lifesaving training, convoy logistics and security experience, and other relevant skills.
We started a fundraising effort and would like to bring ourselves and what we raise to your community effort. We are not only looking to help out on the ground in any way we can but we want to put money into the hands of families ourselves. We have been trying to work out logistics which I realize must be difficult at this time. However we are located in Florida and are able to utilize the MFI transport if that is still a viable option. We are both preparing to sustain ourselves as much as possible so as to not be a drag on already limited resources, but since we have experience working with little resources as Marines and combat veterans, I feel we could be a great asset to a relief effort. God Bless
Please contact us at
mrkylemmoore@gmail.com
Praise GOD for the relief. We continue to pray that His love and arm be around you as you seek to do good with all the blessings....RCUMC loves & misses you all!
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