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WMI Haiti Staff is Alive and Well!

Water Missions International just received a phone call from Julio Paula, our Country Director on the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We are relieved and ecstatic to report that our four staff members who were in Port-au-Prince when the quake struck have all survived and escaped serious injury.

Thank you for your payers for our staff. This is a true victory, and we are so grateful to God for His answer to our prayers!

While Water Missions International has not yet secured the much needed transportation for the first 10 water treatment systems, we do have the following relief update:

Relief Update:

Around noon today, one Charleston-based staff member and one highly experienced WMI volunteer boarded a commercial flight to the Dominican Republic. They are scheduled to arrive just before 11:00 this evening. Tomorrow, they will connect with ministry partners on the ground and make the trip into Haiti to meet WMI staff already in Port-au-Prince.

Our Charleston-based relief workers are carrying satellite telephones as they travel into Haiti tomorrow. We expect to have open and continuous communication with our staff in Port-au-Prince as early as tomorrow. 

Ways You Can Help!

Pray -

Please pray for the quickest path into Haiti for our water treatment systems and for our U.S.-based staff. Currently, the most urgent need in Haiti is safe water and we must act quickly!

Please continue to pray for our staff and ministry partners on the ground. Praises to God that our Haiti staff survived the deadly quake and are doing well.

Give -

Please visit our giving page to help provide us with the immediate resources we need to respond to disasters.

Posted on Fri, January 15, 2010 by Lindsay Wine

7 comments (Add your own)

1. John W. Richardson wrote:
Thank God that Julio and Elsa and their teasm are okay! Our prayers for their safety have been answered.
They will be the answer to many Hatian's prayers.

Fri, January 15, 2010 @ 7:19 PM

2. Stephanie Relfe wrote:
Great job! I just heard about you from this article.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/15/MN981BJ34O.DTL

I was looking for people bringing in RENEWABLE water supplies, so I donated once I found you. I have also linked to this article at my website "Health, Wealth & Happiness" at http://www.Relfe.com, so I hope that that gets you more donations.

Sat, January 16, 2010 @ 2:59 PM

3. Vanessa Schweizer wrote:
Like Stephanie, I heard about you through the above sfgate story. I'm trying to spread word of your work through Facebook and Twitter. Hope you're able to get the filters on the ground soon.

Sat, January 16, 2010 @ 3:39 PM

4. Anne Tigner wrote:
Kindsay, I need to know what to do to help. Anne Tigner 556-0598

Sat, January 16, 2010 @ 7:48 PM

5. Mike Abbott & Leslie Griffin wrote:
My parents gave us a check as a Christmas present. Rather than spend it on ourselves, we decided to donate the entire amount to WMI because, regardless of religious conviction (Christian, otherwise, or not at all), all human life requires clean drinking water to survive. God Bless and pray for the best in Haiti.


Mike & Leslie, Summerville, SC

Sat, January 16, 2010 @ 10:48 PM

6. Ansu John wrote:
Heard about your organization in an LATimes story and wanted to check out what exactly you are providing. I think it's wonderful what your organization does. Could I make a suggestion that you provide a direct, and very clear link from your home page to a description of the wonderful, mobile, solar-powered water purifiers you get to these hard hit areas. I think it's good to provide that information to a broader audience who may be interested in donating. I had to click around several times to find exactly what the technology was. Even a descriptive link such as "our water purification technology" would help us understand your work better and it really should be place on the home page or under "our response". Also please spell out how water purification helps stem disease in places where sanitation infrastructure has been destroyed and that it's better to rely on onsite purification rather than imported bottled water. I would feel better about donating when I know what my money is going to in concrete terms.

All best and God bless you for your efforts and mission.
Ansu

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