The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod released two grants totaling $35,000 on Monday, Aug. 27, to assist relief efforts in Haiti and the Dominican Republic following Tropical Storm Isaac, which struck the island nations Aug. 25. “These two grants of the LCMS are incredibly vital for the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic,” said the Rev. [...]
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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By Kim Plummer Krull The day after one Mercy Medical Team (MMT) returned from leading first-ever, much-needed diabetes education seminars requested by the India Evangelical Lutheran Church, another group of quickly organized medical volunteers headed to Haiti to answer an urgent plea to treat a deadly cholera outbreak. “This is a small team we quickly [...]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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One year after a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, nearly 1 million people still live in tents, 95 percent of the rubble remains and cholera has killed more than 2,500, according to news sources. Other troubling reports say that less than half of the more than $4 billion pledged internationally for earthquake [...]
Thursday, December 2, 2010
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As LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) donors celebrated Thanksgiving Day in the United States, they also helped provide a hospital in Haiti with a blessing – a delivery of medical supplies to treat cholera patients. “The cholera is growing there a lot,” Willy Gaspar, WR-HC projects manager in Haiti, said in an e-mail, [...]
Friday, November 19, 2010
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Plans are in the works to send a shipment of 300 water filters to Haiti next week, the first of a total 1,360 filters purchased by LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) and the initial step in a new effort to join forces with partners as diverse as a water filter company with Lutheran [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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As the cholera outbreak grows ever more deadly, Willy Gaspar, LCMS World Relief and Human Care projects manager in Haiti, is working with Lutheran partners in the neighboring Dominican Republic to buy desperately needed medicines and water filters to distribute through Haitian Lutheran congregations into some of the country’s hardest-hit communities. “The needs are extremely [...]
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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In this KFUO radio interview, LCMS World Relief and Human Care’s Jacob Fiene discusses the cholera outbreak in Haiti, a grant to help fight the preventable disease and the need for continued donor support. Fiene just returned from serving with a nine-person Mercy Medical Team at a new clinic in rural Poto opened by WR-HC [...]
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Ten months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, news stories report how little has changed, including that more than 1 million survivors remain homeless and that none of the U.S. government’s pledged $1.15 billion in aid has arrived in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. But amid huge challenges that include a recent cholera outbreak, [...]
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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To help fight the spread of deadly cholera, LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) awarded a $5,000 grant to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH) to buy urgently needed sanitation supplies and bottled water. The grant followed an urgent request from ELCH President Rev. Marky Kessa and was issued one day after a [...]
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Monday, August 27, 2012
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