Urgent Help Needed in Haiti!
Haiti
- Other Cities in Haiti:
Port-au-Prince
Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months and 1-2 years
Description:
You will help us to bring relief to the victims (whatever you can do).
Highlights:
On January 12th a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Devastating aftershocks followed. The current number of dead and missing is estimated to be between 100,000 and 300,000. The entire capital of Port-au-Prince appears damaged or destroyed. The situation is dire and the suffering extreme. While the effects are hard to quantify so soon after the earthquake,there is a clear and desperate need both for emergency and long-term assistance to address the vicious cycle of poverty, health care, environmental degradation and disease, which is guaranteed to intensify in the aftermath of this crisis. We ask you now,during this time of tremendous suffering, to take action with us. Please,help us to bring relief to the victims and the communities where we serve as we provide additional service and assistance of that unforseen and certainly unbudgeted disaster. Please, consider volunteer with us or sending us your help today so that we may respond swiftly during this time of crisis and continue to support the Haitian people in the months to come. Your help is urgently needed to bring immediate emergency relief to those affected.
Cost in US$: USD 300/week- USD 950/month
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Cost Includes :
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- Excursions
- Food
- Housing
- In-country orientation/Training
- In-country staff support
- Registration fees
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Experience Required: no
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Volunteer Types :
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- agriculture
- building maintenance
- building schools
- childcare/children
- community centers
- community health
- community organizing
- computer training
- cutting wood
- elderly
- fixing fences
- food
- handicapped
- health care
- home visit
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- homelessness
- hospital
- housing
- infrastructure planning
- intervention
- medicine
- nursing
- nutrition
- office work
- organizational development
- orphans
- painting
- pastoral work
- population issues
- public education
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- refugee relief
- relief
- repairs
- restoration
- sanitation
- solar & hydro projects
- strategic planning
- street kids
- teaching
- translation
- youth
- youth development
- youth ministry
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This Program is open to
American,
Asian,
Australian,
Canadian,
European,
Kiwi,
South African
and Worldwide
Participants.
This Program is also open to
Families, Couples and Individuals
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Typical Living Arrangements :
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- Apartment/Flat
- Dormitory
- Group living
- Home-stays
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Participants Travel to Haiti
Independently
or
in Groups
Typically Participants Work
Independently
or
in Groups
Application Process Involves:
- Phone Interview
- Written Application
Force d'Entraide et de Developpement Integre's Mission Statement: We seek to reflect God's love for us in the way we treat others - not only with words of encouragement, but through practical actions which comfort, sustain and uplift those in greatest need.
The Scriptures clearly reveal this call to action, and its truth will be our guide (1 John 3:16, Isaiah 58:6-12, Matthew 25:31-46, Acts 2:40-47).
In recognition that poverty ravages many areas of the world - victimizing families, children and the elderly, we dedicate ourselves to a ministry of relief and development to aid the poor
Wherever possible, our work is not to sustain the needy, but rather to break the cycle of poverty that plagues them. By providing educational opportunities and by focusing on community development, we strive to make impoverished individuals and villages self-supporting.
food for hungry families and schoolchildren
literacy for underprivileged women
medicines and supplies to hospitals
care and education for orphans and other vulnerable children
water supplies (wells, aqueducts) to parched villages
housing for the homeless
micro-enterprise programs for poor families
emergency relief from natural disasters
&and many other projects and programs to relieve suffering and raise the quality of life for the poor in the Caribbean
Year Founded: 1990
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