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Mission Harvest America, Inc needs your help to keep giving a hand of those in need. Please donate as you can, you will be rewarded by the lord!

All funds donated will go directly into the Mission Harvest Haiti Relief Fund Account.

NEWS RELEASE: HAITI RELIEF EFFORT CONTINUES

Without visiting the areas affected by the earthquake in Haiti, one cannot visualize the depth of destruction and loss of life and limb that has occurred.  Attached are some photos taken by our Director of Mission Harvest Haiti Pastor St Vil and our Co Director Pastor Bob Le Franc as they recently visited the affected areas surveying how we can respond to this great need. [Some are graphic so please be aware.]

Here is what has happened so far in our response:

Since January 13^th we have gathered medical supplies, food, clothing’s, camping supplies, kitchen supplies, and much more in preparation for shipments to Haiti by Air and Sea.

Within two weeks we began flights of urgently needed medical supplies to Haiti.  In coordination with Florida State Senator Tony Hill for a flight to Cap-Haitian and with Angel Flights 44 making daily flights we were able to bring much needed antibiotics and more into the country.   On the flight sponsored by friends of Senator Hill we carried antibiotics and other urgently needed medications.  When Pastor St Vil got to Port au Prince with the medications it was late at night.  However, he did not want to keep the items at his home so he went to the hospital near him giving them the medication.   They were elated to receive even the small amount of antibiotics.  They had just amputated legs from two women and had no antibiotics to give them, they feared that infection would set in and the women would die.   They pleaded for antibiotics.  Pastor St Vil told them to look in Box # 7 and there they found the exact medications needed to preserve the life of these two ladies.   God is on time every time and we want to thank all of you that have supported our efforts, this saving of lives is as much a part of your efforts by supporting as it was by our delivery of  the needed medications.

Currently we have 12 container loads of supplies ready for dispatch to the port.  We have bookings on ships to get the containers to Haiti and we have people and assets available in Haiti to effectively make distribution into areas of need.   However, we have two major problems.   

One is the lack of platforms to carry the containers to port and also to deliver in Haiti.  We need six to twelve flat bed trailers or 40 foot chassis to mount the containers on.  We have twenty five containers and can only deliver five at a time to the port with round trips.   We need any size flat bed trailer 40 foot or longer or the chassis.  Please pray that some can be donated or loaned for this effort.  We can triple our shipments if we have the equipment. 

Two is funding to cover the cost to sustain operations for the next 90 days.  $314,000.00 is needed.   So far we have collected about 20% of those needed funds.  In addition to the shipping and distribution we have a secure compound for 20 or more of our relief team workers in a compound near St Marc.   We have several trucks available there and we are shipping two more trucks and a 20 foot flat trailer to increase our distribution abilities.  Please considering giving now and give the most you can.   We are asking the churches to have a “HAITI RELIEF” Sunday with special offerings.   The cost to produce and deliver a container is approximately $6,000.00 per container which can be in value of over $200,000.00 each.  Perhaps your church, business, group or individual could sponsor one container?  Our projection is to send 80 containers for the first phase and then more there after. 

Container houses will be built with the containers.   Taking two containers we can erect a home, church, school or clinic of 1600 SF in a matter of days if all the materials are on hand.  We need volunteer short term work teams for each of these planned buildings to be erected.   We need volunteers for other parts of the project both in Jacksonville and in Haiti.

Starting today we begin rolling the full containers of relief materials to the port.  With each shipment go the heart, love and work of hundreds of people and organizations who have networked with us to gather materials for these shipments.

Here are the most current needs we have: 

1. Flat bed trailers or chassis to carry the containers to port and in country.
2. Forklifts.   15 K to 25 K to handle the empty containers and 5 K to handle stock...  We need two of each so one of each can be sent to Haiti where almost no equipment exists.
3. Trucks 16 Foot to 26 Foot to ship to Haiti for distribution transportation.  Funds to ship the trucks needed is $2500 per truck.
4. Medical personnel to help sort and categorize donated medical supplies to allow us to send the most critical by air and the rest by sea.   We need these people in Jacksonville NOW.  Also for medical personnel to go to our compound in Haiti to set up a Medical Supply Stowage and Issue section in our secure compound.
5. Forklift drivers for our Jacksonville operation, need three drivers.
6. Pickup and Delivery of donated items in Jacksonville.  Need people with pickup trucks, with trailers if possible or covered trucks to pick up from 26 area drop off sites.
7. Tractor power equipment to pull our trailers to areas of collection and return and to take container trailers to Port of Palm Beach.
8. FUNDS to make all this happen.  We are working solely on contributions and therefore have the freedom to do it right the first time.   We have the experience necessary to provide this massive support effort and the distribution system in place to insure that all donations are being delivered to the heart of need with accountability.

Please pray and help when and where you can.  Collect items, volunteer your time and equipment and donate the funds to keep this effort going.  Great success has already been achieved but that was yesterday, today and tomorrow we must keep our hand to the plow and our rows even to continue to achieve success. 

To donate or find our contact information please use the attached form.  Also attached are photographs recently taken by Pastor Le Franc and Pastor St Vil.  They are graphic showing the reality of what has happened so be caution of who should see them.

In His Service and Yours,

Dewey E. Painter, Sr.

President Mission Harvest America, Inc.