Haiti: 6 Months Later

The Salvation Army will complete the construction of 600 housing shelters through the Transitional Shelter Program in Jacmel, Haiti this week, to assist in relocating earthquake-displaced Haitians back to their home communities. Over the past six months The Salvation Army has transitioned from providing for immediate needs, including temporary shelter, food, water and medical attention to providing long-term recovery services to help return survivors to a level of normalcy in their lives. The long-term rebuilding process has employed more than 400 Haitians as carpenters and construction crew-members to assist in reconstruction efforts. Read more

American Legion aids in Haiti cause

The Salvation Army received $2,000 from the American Legion on Feb. 10, 2010 to help in the relief efforts in Haiti. Four American Legion members came to present the funds.

American Legion Commander Dan Gates from the Broad Ripple post 3 said that they were donating to The Salvation Army “because of their reputation.” Read more

Elementary students help with Haiti relief

In a weeks time, students at the Shenandoah Elementary School in Middletown, Indiana raised over $5,600 for The Salvation Army’s Disaster Services Relief for Haiti through their fundraising campaign Drinking Water for Haiti. At noon Feb. 3, 2010 at Shenandoah Elementary, the students presented the funds to The Salvation Army’s Major Brenda Pittman and Development Director Jeff Stanger.

Drinking Water for Haiti was put into affect by every teacher in the school buying enough water bottles for each student in their class. The students were allowed to drink the water in school and were reminded when they drank that the people in Haiti didn’t have this luxury. Read more

Haiti Update: January 31, 2010

Port-au-Prince, Haiti:  While the situation in Haiti continues to be very
serious, The Salvation Army Relief Team is providing massive amounts of
food, water and other relief materials to the people in Haiti.

• The team in Haiti received a shipment of 18 pallets of food (representing 213,840 meals) along with 4 pallets (over 5,100 individual  bottles) of water on Saturday.
• A subsequent delivery of 35 pallets of food (415,800 meals) was in route with a scheduled Sunday arrival time in Port-au-Prince. These meals were  accompanied by 8 pallets of water which provided over 1300 gallon jugs of water for distribution.
• Team members were coordinating with the US Army 82nd Airborne to arrange  a food delivery of over 174,000 meals to a particularly hard hit  neighborhood in Port-au-Prince which had not received any major food distributions before now.
• Meetings were held and partnerships continued to be forged as The
  Salvation Army convened meetings in its role as Camp Managers for the  approximately 20,000 displaced people now finding whatever shelter they can in the Delmas 2 neighborhood.
• Critically important issues being addressed is water and sanitation, the provision of medium-term shelter, various NFI’s (non-food items) including kitchen and cooking kits, etc.,  and, of course, regular and reliable deliveries of food. Read more

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