As a first responder to the January 12 Haitian earthquake, World Vision has provided assistance to more than a million people. Since the quake, nineteen Child-Friendly Spaces have been opened and offer children a chance to be children – to play, learn and heal from emotional trauma. Thirteen health clinics in Port-au-Prince offer medical care and hope to families. Relief efforts are ongoing and support is still needed to help build a brighter future for the children of Haiti.

Gifts that will aid children and families in Haiti include:

• Ongoing support that helps rebuild lives and communities, providing safe places for children and clean water ($20 per month)
• Food and health care ($50 provides $150 worth of care)
• Long-term aid, including food, medical care, building and farming supplies ($75 provides $225 worth of aid)

“Mother’s Day is a time for celebrating life, and for giving back to others,” says World Vision Gift Catalog National Director Devin Hermanson. “There’s no better way to celebrate than to provide a gift of lifesaving supplies to a needy family, while teaching your own children about giving to others.”

The World Vision Gift Catalog, located at www.worldvisiongifts.org, offers more than 100 poverty-fighting gifts ranging in price from $16 to $39,000 that can be purchased in the name of a mother, child, friend, or loved one. In addition to specific products, World Vision has created a series of funds to support immediate and long-term needs of quake survivors in Haiti.

After purchasing a Gift Catalog item, the recipient in turn receives a special card describing the gift that was purchased and the impact it will have in the life of a person in need.

Since the World Vision Gift Catalog was first introduced in 1996, new gifts have been introduced and its popularity as a gift-giving alternative has grown substantially with more than 100,000 purchases made last year. Goats were the most popular item in 2009: over 50,000 goats were given to families in need thanks to the generous contributions of gift catalog donors.

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Annually our church partners with a missionary in Haiti and last month we collected money for hundreds of pounds of rice as well as bags upon bags of gently used clothing. Those supplies are needed more now than ever. This Sunday we are taking up an offering for a wonderful organization- Convoy of Hope. If you aren’t sure where to donate so that your donation goes to help the most people I highly recommend Convoy of Hope.

If you are in Florida, Agape Flights is an organization that weekly flies supplies into the Dominican Republic and Haiti bringing supplies to the hundreds of missionaries in those countries. Their website has a list of items they are collecting (their website has been down a lot due to the overwhelming response). We are huge fans of Agape flights. Our friend Jeff Yanucciello is one of their pilots and my son Aaron went on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic with Agape Flights 3 years ago.

Here is the most recent update from Agape Flights:

Locally, Agape Flights has already sent in supplies:        http://www.agapeflights.com/
Haiti Disaster        Relief
Hotline phone#  941-584-8078 or 488-0990
Contributions: Click above Make Secure Online        donation   http://www.agapeflights.com/
Choose: HAITI RELIEF 2010
Donations will be used for Disaster Relief supplies and extra flights to Haiti over the next weeks.
Working on your behalf and as a ministry ready to respond to disasters, we are busy today coordinating information and the status of the 130 missionary families Agape Flights serves in Port au Prince, Haiti.  Agape is also coordinating emergency and medical supplies that can be sent from our base of operations in Venice, FL.

Our plane touched down in the Bahamas Thursday morning at 9am to wait for clearance for PAP.  The 1st load of       critical medical supplies and food is scheduled to land 2:30.  The next stop for the plane is in the DR  to pickup up Water and food.  Then they will head back to PAP to drop it off.  A 2nd plane left this morning from West Palm with Agape Pilots to deliver a medical crew to PAP.  It will be returning with Barbara Lataillade ( a  missionary)  who needs leg surgery after her house collapsed.  The next flight of emergency supplies will leave on Saturday.

Click Here for more Haiti/Missionary Updates
For a list of current supplies        needed.
http://www.agapeflights.com/Haitiupdates.asp
NEEDS:
Pilots with planes to make extra emergency flights to Haiti.
Medical Supplies Needed:

• First Aid supplies
• Band Aids, Gauze, Bandages, Tape, Sutures, ACE
• Water purification tablets
• Neosporin, Alcohol swabs, Hydrogen Peroxide
• Suture stuff
• Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Tylenol
• IV Tubing and Fluids, Angiocaths
• Plaster for casts, Splints, brace adhesive
• Antibiotics
• Betadine
• Analgesics
• Gloves
• Diabetic and hypertensive medications
• Vitamins
• Syringes, needles,glucometers and strips,thermometers, blood pressure cuffs
• Stethoscopes, rechargable otoscopes
• Iodine
• acid reflux meds

Other Items

• Bedding, towels, clothing
• Soap
• Flashlights w/batteries or cranking
• Plastic tablecloths, tarps for makeshift shelter
• Matches and candles

Food Needs

• Canned meats, vienna sausages, spam
• Peanut butter
• Pork and beans
• Bread
• Self-rising flour
• Snacks such as protein bars or granola or Protein powder
• Powdered milk
• Baby formula and baby food, bottles
• Water

If you cannot donate money or supplies, please at least pray. Pray for the people of Haiti, the church and missionaries in Haiti and for the emergency workers in and heading to Haiti.

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