(ENS) The Episcopal Diocese of Haiti is trying to evaluate the needs of Haitians in the wake of four storms that have battered Hispaniola in less than a month.
“What has happened is very hard to us,” Bishop Jean Zache Duracin wrote September 10 in response to an email inquiry from ENS. “As you may know, many people died, disappeared [or are] hurt. The whole [of] Haiti has been affected, a country where the socio-economic situation was already bad. Many people have been left homeless, with no food and clothes, etc.”
“Many of our church buildings have been affected. We are now doing an evaluation of what we have lost, but because of problems of communication, that will take some time.”
Duracin, noting that usually in such situations many people wait for the church to respond, wrote that “the church here is making efforts to help. We are preparing to send food and other primary necessity materials to victims, but because of lack of ways of communication our work is very difficult.”
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Bishop, others trying to evaluate Haiti's post-storm situation
(ENS) The Episcopal Diocese of Haiti is trying to evaluate the needs of Haitians in the wake of four storms that have battered Hispaniola in less than a month.
“What has happened is very hard to us,” Bishop Jean Zache Duracin wrote September 10 in response to an email inquiry from ENS. “As you may know, many people died, disappeared [or are] hurt. The whole [of] Haiti has been affected, a country where the socio-economic situation was already bad. Many people have been left homeless, with no food and clothes, etc.”
“Many of our church buildings have been affected. We are now doing an evaluation of what we have lost, but because of problems of communication, that will take some time.”
Duracin, noting that usually in such situations many people wait for the church to respond, wrote that “the church here is making efforts to help. We are preparing to send food and other primary necessity materials to victims, but because of lack of ways of communication our work is very difficult.”
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