Boston Mothers Care join forces with Haitian American United and other local organizations to bring resources to Haiti to support our brothers and sisters affected by the earthquake on Saturday, August 14th, 2021. HAU have raised over $16,000; on August 26th, $12,000 was sent directly to grassroots organizations on the ground in Haiti, serving those in immediate need.
We invite you to contribute by:

1. Donating to Boston Mothers Care - Mail the check to 234 Kennebec Street Hyde Park, MA 02136

2. Making an online donation at HAUinc.org/helphaiti; or mail a check directly to “Haitian Americans United” at P.O. Box 260440, Mattapan, MA 02126 (memo: “Haiti August 2021 Earthquake”)

HAU is also collecting donations to send out to Haiti - see the list of items that can be purchase to donate. We are collecting from now until September 4th, 2021

Boston Mothers Care has identify two places to provide services. We are supporting the hospital Sainte -Anne de Camp-Perrin and L’eglise Evangelique Shekinah in Les Cayes. Both organizations are in the ground providing relief work to the community.

The hospital lost all their computers, and all their electronic supplies. The nurses are operating the clinic, no doctors on site yet. The pharmacy is running out of medicines. The needs are critical for basic things such as bandages, alcohol wipes, dressings, antibiotics, pain killers and blood pressure manual monitor. We will be providing those materials to help the team provide support in all the capacity they can.

We also have been communicating with the pastor wife Marie Marline to give us updates, they open the church for about 400 people. They have providing help to the the families such as medicine, shelters and anyway they can. They have about 50 to 60 children from babies to teens.

Besides our efforts, Haitian American United is providing emergency assistant funds to help organizations on the ground with funding. Your urgent support needed. Support trusted organization on the group that is providing relief work immediately and directly to community that most needed. You can visit HAU website at www.hauinc.org

HERE ARE SOME ORGANIZATION YOU CAN DONATE TO SUPPORT THE RELIEF EFFORTS.

• Boston Mothers Care - bostonmotherscare.org

• St. Boniface Hospital - www.healthequityintl.org

• Partners in Health - www.PIH.org

• Hope for Haiti - www.hopeforhaiti.com

• Haitian American United - www.hau.org



Haiti Earthquake in the south area

August 14th, 2021.

On Saturday August 14th at 8:29AM the Haitian people experienced a magnitude of 7.2 earthquake that collapsed concrete structures and buried Haitians under broken buildings and walls. The Death toll has exceeded 1450 people and will continue to rise while family members and neighbors are removing debris with bare hands.

Many cities and community areas have been affected in the south area such as: Lex Cayes, Camp- Perrin, Pestel, Jacquel, Jeremie and more. Many of the major roads have been destroyed because of landslides, rain, aftershocks and poor condition of the roads. As of right now, only planes and boat will be able to reach certain areas.

The population are in most needs of water, foods, tents, feminine products, diapers, sheets, medical supplies, first aid kit, and PPE,

Please continue to keep Haiti in your daily prayers.

We are suggesting to be very careful of who are collecting money - Support organization that are trusted and on the ground with years of experience in helping those who are in needs and given directly to the community most vulnerable.

HAITI PROJECTS

Damaged Crops  - 2016

The Hurricane was devastated in Haiti, many people lost all their crops and a lot of damages in the South areas of Haiti.  

Garden & The New Church in colminy, 2015

Now, the community has a chance to grow their own foods, they have two pumps that are working 7 days a week.  This is a great opportunity to help them grown foods to eat and sell them to sustain their families.  Also the community has a church that will be serving the whole community.

COLMINY FARM, 2014

Boston Mothers Care completed another project in 2014 by providing a pump for the farmers. The people in the village have 2 pumps now to work their garden thanks to Mission Haiti and BMC. Last December, the farmers cropped beautiful beans, callalou, squash, eggplants and other vegetables.  We are now raising funds to build the school, which will be our next project for the community.

COMMITMENT & WATER RESERVOIR, 2013

Healing Hands provides water filters  to the family in Colminy.  As we are planning to travel there in summer 2013, to oversee the building of a reservoir to hold water, build school and church benches, bring school supplies and having a community meal.   We do understand the difficulty of our mission in Haiti, but we remain committed.

WELL DRILLING UPDATE, May 2012

It took months to work through formal procedures to bring heavy equipment to the Artibonite region. Once a suitable location was found, the ground was so rocky, the drill bit broke – causing further delay. Finally, we received a report from the Operations Director that they hit salt water, which could not be used without desalination equipment that would be impractical to maintain.

Throughout this process, Healing Hands never charged any money for their work. They also donated filters to the school and family members in the community.

CLEAN WATER UPDATE, September 2011

We joined forces with Healing Hands International, a faith-based organization in Tennessee, to drill a well in Colminy. The plan was to do a site survey, then bring in a drill team and heavy equipment. This normally can be done in less than a week.  On the same year, BMC held a benefit concert to raise funds for the well in Colminy.