I received an email this morning asking "Why are we helping starting in the DR and not in Haiti, and What are we doing? and then where will the money come from? Good questions...
It all starts with relationships. A dear friend with Jesuit roots asked for assistance. We give what we can. What God assembled was a really cool team. We will serve and help and train where asked. And we will look for opportunity to give.
Why not start in Haiti? The logistics are crazy and we are helping a very grassroots movement that will come in from the side.
Will we get to Haiti? Probably. But that is up to our Jesuit hosts and the teams we help train. We tell you when we do.
Where's the money come from? That's a good question when 2 of the team are unemployed right now and none of the team are well paid. We are available... we seek to be obedient and we trust God that some friends will come around us to help... In the meantime everything is on VISA.
We have been asked to help with four key tasks in the next 12 days.
1. Help assess how we can best utilize hundreds of untrained volunteers who live a 4 hour drive from Port au Prince, so that we can be most cost effective and efficient?
2. Help train available Dominican volunteers immediately in basic healthcare and rescue so that they can go into Haiti and help.
3. Help facilitate clear communication with the church in English speaking North America about what the Dominican church is doing to help the Haitian people.
4. Help the Dominicans raise $1,000,000 in North America through the Catholic Church to fund trucking costs (one tractor trailer load to Port au Prince costs $1300), water, and medicine in the next 30 days.
Our team will have our hands full assisting Antonio in these four areas.
The total cost for our small team is less than $15,000 including transportation into Haiti.
Will you come alongside us financially so that we can leverage 6 people and $15,000 to release hundreds of Dominicans to help Haitians, and send over 400 tractor trailer loads into Haiti?
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