With the tremendous damage, injury, and loss of life that resulted from the recent earthquake in Haiti, The GOD'S CHILD Project extends its deepest sympathies to all who have suffered.
We have also mobilized The GOD'S CHILD Project's resources and professional connections to help out as best we can. Based on GOD'S CHILD Project's Founder and Executive Director Patrick Atkinson's extensive work experience in Haiti, he anticipates that there are, and will be even more, infrastructural shortcomings and situational chaos as the relief effort goes along, matched with eventually severely violent crime.
It is critical that we get vital care to the victims now!
To provide the highest quality and most efficient help possible without duplicating efforts or drawing down scarce and vital resources, we recommend the following:
For Cash and Credit Card Contributions:
Like you, we in The GOD'S CHILD Project appreciate effectiveness and good stewardship. We want to see the greatest benefit come from every donated dollar.
For this Haitian tragedy, we are recommending Direct Relief International as your most effective emergency giving channel. We know this group's operations, they have donated millions of dollars in medical supplies and medicines to The GOD'S CHILD Project, they have "rescue boots on the ground in Haiti right now", and through bulk purchasing and corporate donations, they turn every $1 donation in $37 worth of medical care. 100% of every dollar you donate for Haiti goes directly to help those whose lives have been shattered.
For Clothing, Blanket, and Other In-Kind Donations:
The clothing, blankets, medical ande other in-kind supplies that have already been collected by The GOD'S CHILD Project and are already on-site in Central America will be transported to rescue groups in Haiti, just as soon as transportation is available.
The GOD'S CHILD Project will need to restock this clothing, blankets, medical and other in-kind supplies just as soon as possible, since these items are desperately needed by the 5,000 orphaned, abandoned, and poverty-stricken children with whom The GOD'S CHILD Project already works. Your donations can be dropped off at:
The GOD'S CHILD Project 721 Memorial Highway Bismarck, ND 58504 Tel: 701-255-7956
Please help The GOD'S CHILD Project with your cash donation, since the unanticipated emergency rescue-relief expenses we are incurring were totally unanticipated, will total several thousand dollars, and we have no excess with which to pay these expenses. As always, your donation is fully tax-deductible.
For Volunteers, Prayers, Love and Support:
Volunteers are not needed at this time to go to Haiti since vital resources like food, water and secure sleeping space are scarce or non-existant. We will publicize when, and if, The GOD'S CHILD Project is able to form emergency ServiceTeams to help out.
We DO need volunteers to help us in The GOD'S CHILD Project main office, in Bismarck, North Dakota. If you can help, please call 701-255-7956.
Please remember the victims and the rescuers with your love, thoughts and prayers. Hundreds of thousands of people were injured or killed as a result of this recent earthquake. Millions more are suffering. The staff, volunteers, children, and families of The GOD'S CHILD Project are helping to support good groups already in Haiti with "boots on the ground".
Join us in doing what we can. Please contribute to The GOD'S CHILD Project Haitian Relief Fund. 100% of all donated funds will go directly for this effort.
