This last week there are two main concerns that I have been concerned for and I wanted to share these disasters with you as well for your assistance and support. One is the Cholera outbreak in Haiti and the other in the tsunami that hit Indonesia as well as the volcanic eruption. Of course you have heard of these in the news recently and the needs that have arisen for help and assistance for both of these areas.
There has been several people killed and the lose of homes and businesses from both the tidal wave and the eruption in this country. We have hope that the supplies and assistance will get to the ones in need and emotional help for the survivors in their time of grief.
The cholera outbreak in Haiti is a real concern as many babies and children have been the most effected. The hospitals are flooded with the sick and there have been many deaths. Assistance is needed for the people and that the medicines, supplies, water treatment facilities and sanitation eduction to reach the most susceptible groups quickly.
For more information on how to help, support or assist in these efforts we ask you to please contact please Youth Quests International.
While watching the news early this morning I was struck by the numerous disasters in Asia and rising tensions in the Middle East.The deaths, sickness and disease, homeless, starving and numerous millions of families hurt in one way or another or morning for lost loved ones from these recent events.
Continued rains and mudslides in China, the deluge continues in Pakistan and a school collapsed in northern India from excessive rains.With all these disasters, many have died, more that twenty million affected in Pakistan alone, the short term conditions are deplorable and disease is spreading in Pakistan and may elsewhere as a result of these conditions.
Aid, relief and assistance is needed for all these things and people. In Pakistan alone I have received several reports from inside of Pakistan from pastors that the aid that is coming in is far less than what is needed to even sustain them, but the relief that is coming is not being distributed without discrimination inside of the country.Our hope is that those who are in power will distribute without partiality or corruption to help everyone who needs this relief.Also our hope is that the doors will open for the many Christian aid agencies to be able to go in freely with out restriction to serve, assist, and bring assistance to those in need.
Hello from Fresh Hope Projects, I am writing to let you know the progress of the Haitian project we are involved with, the current needs and requests, as well as, our future plans for this project. The previous team had worked on some crucial and much needed improvements for the following teams who will be working on the projects in this local village area. They were involved in ministry to the local people as well. The team arriving in the village near Torbeck in just a few days will greatly appreciate all the previous team has done in preparation for them.
Project Updates & Prayer Requests
Will you pray about the following needs? The dollar amounts mentioned are still needed for the projects.) For donations go to: http://hopeforhaiti.shutterfly.com/news
Water Well While we were there, we were able to talk with some government officials about drilling a well in preparation for the orphanage we are planning on building there in the area. Even though they said that they only drill on government or public lands, they agreed to drill the well for a very reasonable $2000.00 for the orphanage project. We are really blessed for this good source of water for the orphanage and ministry. Our hope for this project to progress and the doors to stay open as well as the funds to come in for this project for a good water source for the people.
Poultry Business The team that left for Torbeck on July 18th worked on building the poultry business. The aim of this business is supporting the pastors to be self-sustaining in working with the local people and income generating for the operation of the orphanage. As of right now, we are currently $2000 short on funds to get this poultry business fully up and running complete with facilities, equipment, chicks and feed.
Orphanage Projection We are currently in contact with a man who has been building several homes in Haiti in cooperation with the Haitian government. He has agreed to build the orphanage in this area employing local people and using good materials for the low cost of $15 per square foot! Our goal is to start with a 2000 square foot facility that would only cost $30,000; then with the water available, the orphanage would be in a good position to be a blessing to many in that area.
Adoption in Progress Orphans in this area need hope and a future; currently it is our turn to help an orphan girl be adopted into a Christian family in the USA. The lawyers in the country have been working on the adoption. All the family needs is another $3,000.00 to complete the adoption process.
Thank you so much for your interest in the humanitarian work from Fresh Hope Projects
We know many of you have a great burden in your heart for Nation of Pakistan and especially poor community facing flood problems.
The Flood in four Province of Pakistan?????
We will share with you urgent concerns and requests for Pakistani Community is facing flooding problems, many challenge. At least 3 Millions people are disturbed & affect, victim so far issued new flood warnings, as heavy rains are expected to inflict more misery on areas where at least 1,500 people have already been killed and 980,000 more have lost their homes were damaged and a key trade highway to China was blocked by the flooding. The entire infrastructure we built in the last 50 years has been destroyed.
Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, estimated that roughly three million people were now affected by floods in the country - 1.5 million in the northwest and the same number in Punjab. The rush of water spilling from rivers in Punjab has threatened to destroy vast areas of crops, prompting the United Nations to warn that an estimated 1.8 million people might need food aid in the coming weeks.
People sought refuge on rooftops and tried to bring their livestock up as far as possible. In the northwest, rising water levels at Warsak Dam, the country's third biggest, prompted disaster officials to ask residents in the northern outskirts of Peshawar city to leave their homes. Families are stranded and desperate for food. There are 40,000 children in the region, many of whom are already going hungry. When aid does get to them the atmosphere can be very tense.
Many residents who lost their homes and livelihood also complained that they had not received any advance warning that raging waters were heading their way. The military said more than 54,000 people had been rescued from flood-hit areas and moved to safer places, with 40 helicopters and 450 army boats mobilized as part of the rescue effort.
Many thousands of people have lost their lives; many more are stranded and exposed to disease and extreme lack of food. Thousands have been displaced. Other impacts include the loss of livestock and damage to agricultural crops and fields. It is estimated that more than a million people have been affected thus far; the total estimated damages and affected population are yet to be determined due to inaccessibility caused by rising flood waters and disruption to communication networks. Immediate needs include food, water, tents and other non-food items.
The Swat valley, which has yet to recover from a major Pakistani army offensive against Taliban fighters just over a year ago, is one of the areas worst affected by the floods. Large parts of the valley's upper regions, reached by a riverside road, are inaccessible. Scores of bridges, roads and building have been washed away by the torrents. Swat, in northwestern Pakistan, was hit the hardest by the floods which submerged extensive areas, brought down bridges and swept away entire villages.
We ask that you see what you can do to help the poor in Pakistan.
Many news agencies have reported much of the following news. The deaths are at least 760 as of Thursday, with more than 11,000 injured, toppled about 15,000 homes in and around Yushu county, and caused more than 100,000 people to flee the area.
Chinese officials ordered rescue crews and supplies to Yushu on April 14th, but the area is hundreds of miles from an airport. "Soldiers have been dispatched to save the people buried in the collapsed houses," local official Huang Limin was quoted as saying by China's state news agency Xinhua.
One official told journalists more than 85% of buildings in Jiegu town near the epicentre had collapsed. "The streets in Jiegu are thronged with panic - injured people, with many bleeding in the head," Zhuo Huaxia said. "Many students are buried under the debris due to building collapse at a vocational school. "I can see injured people everywhere. The biggest problem now is that we lack tents, we lack medical equipment, medicine and medical workers." Residents and monks used hand shovels and ropes to clear debris in hopes of reaching survivors. Thursday's rescue effort was hampered by unstable bridges and collapsed roadways, making it difficult for heavy equipment to get to hard-hit areas.
Many of the buildings in Yushu, a county with a largely Tibetan population of about 80,000, were thought to be made from wood.
In Jiegu, the town closest to the epicenter, people were taken to a sporting field serving as a makeshift hospital because there are no hospitals in the town. The areas ethnic Tibetans, which are among China’s poorest people, living as farmers and herdsmen, their houses were poorly constructed mud and brick houses that 85% collapsed. Officials have sent 20,000 cotton tents, 50,000 items of winter clothing and 50,000 quilts to victims.
A chain of earthquakes as well as aftershocks rattled and shook the Pacific Coastline of the United States and Mexico on Sunday, as well as a magnitude 7.2 quake in northwest Mexico's Baja California that had been felt inside Arizona and The southern area of California, the U.S. Geological Survey documented. The tremble struck at 3:40 p.m. (6:40 p.m. ET) around 175 km's (110 mls) south east of San Diego, Sunday April 4th.
A minimum of two people had been killed. Accounts of injuries along with other structural damage have occurred within northwest Mexico. In California and Arizona, there have been no immediate accounts of injuries as well as only minimal reports of damages.
Photos coming from Mexicali showed sides ripped away from structures, toppled telephone poles, damaged roads and grocery store aisles strewn with foodstuff in which had fallen off of shelves.
Inhabitants throughout Southern California and Arizona noted significant ground shakes.
Nine min's following the Mexico tremble, a magnitude 4.1 quake rattled and shook windows within Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco. No damage had been noted there and it was mentioned that it is a separate tremble from the one which struck within the Baja California desert.
March 17, 2010
Earlier this week three youngsters were killed as well as a couple of individuals injured when a mudslide brought on by torrential down pours knocked down a wall and smashed a home within the Haitian capital, said some people who were there. The previous hurricane season, the passing of Tropical Storm Noel killed over forty individuals within Haiti and upward to one hundred within the adjoining Dominican Republic.
Haiti, the poorest nation within the Americas, is susceptible to flash floods and mudslides since the majority of their trees have already been chopped down in order to make charcoal for cooking food. Nearly all its almost nine million people reside in rickety slum dwellings. Haiti is actually one of many poor nations that was rocked throughout latest weeks by violent protests about soaring world food costs.
Numerous earthquake survivors huddled inside aid tents as well as around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, searching for help from the winter cold following a powerful quake destroyed stone and mud-brick homes within five communities, killing fifty-one people.
The actual destruction seemed most severe within the Kurdish small town of Okcular, which was nearly flattened. At the least fifteen from the village's nine hundred inhabitants had been killed, a village official said, the air was heavy with dust coming from destroyed houses and barns.
The early morning earthquake found numerous inhabitants sleeping, shaking the area's inadequately made structures into heaps of rubble. Panicking survivors ran in to the narrow roads of this small town sitting on a slope in front of the snow covered mountains, with some individuals climbing through windows in order to escape. The 6. magnitude earthquake struck at 4:32 a.m. local time. Residents are urged to not enter any affected houses, cautioning they might topple because of aftershocks that may last for several days. Over one hundred aftershocks measuring as much as 5.5 magnitude shook this area on Monday alone. As well as the fatalities, thirty four people were receiving treatment for injuries, a crisis center said.
Several deaths were in villages through this eastern area of Turkey. Many of the citizens have lost their homes and even their livelihoods from the loss of cattle and other livestock and their barns destroyed. Tents were set up as well as villagers spreading plastic sheeting in order to offer protection from the cold and dirt. The government said it rushed ambulance helicopters, prefabricated homes as well as portable kitchens within the troubled region. The mud-brick structures have been held responsible the region's numerous fatalities and the government housing agency would likely construct quake proof homes within the area.
Inside the earthquake stricken Chile, hundreds of individuals have already been confirmed dead with two million men, women and children suffering from the disaster as well. Numerous areas of the disaster region continue to be inaccessible while a total snapshot of this devastation is only starting to become apparent. Chile's President Michelle Bachelet has made a plea for global assistance.
Rapid response teams are coordinating the supply of essential medicines as well as other health-related supplies to assist earthquake survivors. Numerous relief efforts are generally centered on providing medical aid which includes antibiotics, infection management products as well as surgical equipment. Regarding healthcare, one of the most severe difficulties took place in southern Chile, in which six hospitals collapsed as well as two others that have been damaged seriously and are not able to function.
To accelerate aid to survivors, organizations are also working together with associates within the region, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Argentina, to organize their response. Medications, healthcare supplies along with other humanitarian aid are anticipated to be transported to local hospitals, clinics and other health care providers within the approaching days.
Even while numerous organizations continue to provide relief supplies for the Haitian people, the current focus is to pinpoint long-term recovery plans for this nation. The devastation from the January 12 earthquake killed more than 200,000 and left innumerable people homeless.
We are working together with the Haitian people now as well as with plans for long-term development. Our fundraising pertaining to Haiti is in progress to have adequate funds for the projects currently planned. We are thankful for the generosity of those who have already given to the Haitian people.
