A grant of £3,000 has been channelled to partner organisation Haiti Hospital Appeal (HHA), which is involved in aid work in the disaster zone.
HHA runs a small hospital in Cap Haitien, outside the area affected by the earthquake in the north of Haiti. It is currently active in transporting injured people and feeding and supporting the care of refugees being brought from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
It is also mobilising medical teams and seeking to import supplies from beyond Haiti.
An uncertain struggle
Writing on his blog from the frontline this week, HHA project manager Carwyn Hill says,
“Last Friday, I returned from our third aid trip to Port-au-Prince. We delivered urgent medical supplies to a surgeon, and food to an orphanage of about 70 children who were just days from running out of what they'd salvaged from their completely destroyed home.
“Like so many they now live in tents and their future stands before them as an uncertain struggle, day by day wondering whether aid will or won't arrive.
“When aid does get through it mainly gets sent to the big tent shanty villages that house thousands.
“The smaller dwellings that have anywhere from a few families to a few hundred people are generally getting overlooked.
“In the coming weeks we'll be directing our Port-au-Prince aid to these groups – those who aren't on the front pages, whose little stories have been swallowed up by the extreme extent of the overall devastation.”
Seeking God’s wisdom
This week, writes Carwyn, HHA is setting up a ‘field hospital.’ An operating team is seeking to work with HHA on emergency orthopaedic and plastic surgery cases.
He explains, “We've already got news from a number of hospitals down south stating that they have cases they can't deal with, and too many patients.
“In the coming week we hope we can support these groups and relieve their load.
“No one really knows how things will unfold… but so far we seemed to have been guided by God in the correct places to those most in need. We will continue to seek his wisdom.”