Photo by REUTERS/Matthew Marek/American Red Cross
Haiti (MNN) ― Hurricane Ike's rain added insult to Hanna's injury in Haiti. The storm collapsed key routes connecting the north and south and damaged what little infrastructure was left after Gustav's rampage.
Authorities says 10,000 people are crammed into 115 shelters in Gonaives, and only 10 of the 115 shelters had food.
Eva DeHart with For Haiti With Love says, "Now the river is so high that you can't drive the riverbed, and the reservoir and the bridge out there failed. The North is isolated now; there's no way to get supplies from Port Au Prince up to Cap Haitien or any of the villages."
Flying supplies in to the cut-off areas presents a challenge, as most of the runways are flooded. But getting supplies at all seems to be a major problem.
Hospitals in the lowlands are closed, leaving small ministries like For Haiti carrying the load. They're sending a team to the burn clinic on September 16. DeHart says, "Our clinic has been very, very busy. We'll be replenishing a lot of the clinic supplies that have been used for people who have gotten injured in all of this."
She says people are coming to their gates by the thousands now, looking for help. They have 40,000 pounds of supplies ready to ship to Haiti, but the shipment is stuck on standby in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
DeHart urges pray for their team, acting as the hands and feet of Christ among survivors. "Pray that someone wakes up and realizes that Gonaives is not the only place in Haiti that had a problem, and that they start sending in some aid relief to the North. Cap Haitien is the second largest city and it is totally cut off."
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