I want to post this update on what is happening with Mercy & Sharing in Haiti. I’m not sure the pictures will upload but let it be said, these children are at the bottom of the social totem pole in the Western Hemisphere. Are they not people that deserve a chance at life? Examine your own conscience as to how children, that cannot fend for themselves should be treated? Is it best that they be left to die? You tell me.
Mercy & Sharing UPDATE August 20, 2011
New Arrivals at Mercy & Sharing Orphanages
Children Continue to Be Abandoned at Public Hospital
As many of you may know, Mercy & Sharing used to operate an abandoned baby unit in the government hospital in Port-au-Prince. After the earthquake, it was shut down by the Government of Haiti, and Partners in Health arrived to help run the hospital, but that short-lived assistance has ended, and the public hospital is back to where it was before the earthquake — a dysfunctional facility where children continue to be abandoned in squalor.
If you have to go to L’Hopital Universite d’Etat d’Haiti, the public hospital in Port-au-Prince, plan to bring your own syringe, bed sheets, food and medicine, and plan to have money to bribe the government doctors as to provide medical care. Otherwise, it is largely a dumping ground for unwanted children.
This is where the safety net provided by Mercy & Sharing comes into play, a safety net provided by your generous donations! While the budget of Mercy & Sharing continues to be strained, we recently took SIX new children, and wanted to introduce you to them here — five boys and one girl. Upon their arrival, they were taken to the clinic for a medical check up. One of them had a high fever, another one had a pretty bad skin condition, one is suffering from severe malnutrition, two of them (a boy and a girl) are mentally and physically challenged, and one little boy just needed to be fed and re-hydrated. We have to wait for the medical examination and lab exams to have more precise information on their actual condition. After the preliminary check up, they were cleaned up and dressed in fresh clothes. For safety and sanitary reasons, they were put in a private room for observation. Right now they are being fed and hydrated.
Please consider the least of these children, hundreds of thousands of whom live less than 500 miles from the shores of the richest and most powerful country in the world!
Mercy & Sharing Students Have 99% Pass Rate!
We are proud to announce that 99% of all of the students at the John Branchizio School passed the national exam and will go on to secondary school levels. There was only one girl who did not pass, and unfortunately she was too sick to attend classes on regular basis.
President Delays School Openings for Fall
Unfortunately, there was a Presidential decree issued just this week that the public schools will not open until the second week of October, on a date yet to be announced. As a result of the Presidential decree, private schools, including the Mercy & Sharing schools which are free and provide a hot meal every day, will not be allowed to open until the public schools. The government announced that they do not have enough money to open the public schools, even though this was a major plank in the political campaign of the current President. Gridlock is not confined to Washington, DC — the Haitian President has been unable to appoint a Prime Minister due to deadlock with Parliament, and as a result Haiti has no cabinet and effectively no functioning government yet again.
Student Profile from John Branchizio School
Evariste Chelandie – Age 10 and in 4th Grade at the John Branchizio School
We continue to feature students at our schools so that you can understand how important it is that you continue to support Mercy & Sharing, and in particular the educational programs that you are helping us to provide.
This is the report from the school director: “Chelandie is in 4th Grade. She likes school very much. When she grows up, she wants to be a nurse. I asked her why she chooses to be a nurse. The answer was that to be able to take care of my mom when she gets older. She thinks that it cost a lot of money to take care of someone. So if she becomes a nurse, her mom will be well taking care of at no cost. I smiled.”
Evariste Chelandie – Wants to be a Nurse!
Wisdom for Today
“The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life”
Proverbs 15:4
Thank you all for your continued support of Mercy & Sharing. Pray for the children and staff as we seek to plan ahead for their very lives and salvation.
YOU CAN HELP SAVE A LIFE TODAY…
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www.haitichildren.org or follow us on our Face Book page (search ‘Mercy & Sharing’).Susie & Joe Krabacher
Mercy & Sharing
201 N. Mill Street, Suite 201
Aspen CO 81611
(970) 925 1492Mercy & Sharing is a registered Haitian NGO and a US 501©(3) Public Charity. It has been operating in Haiti since 1994. Its mission is to rescue the abused, abandoned and disabled children of Haiti and provide them with care, hope and opportunity. Mercy & Sharing employs more than 210 Haitians who run all operations there. 100% of every outside donation goes to the Haiti projects, with the Founders and Directors of Mercy & Sharing donating 100% of overhead, fundraising and administrative costs.
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