“Help Heal Haiti”
Thank you to all involved for for your efforts to Help Heal Haiti.
If you fasted and obtained pledges please turn them in to Mr. Wood ASAP. We will let everybody know what our final dollar figure for the fundraiser is as soon as we have all donations. Thank you for being “Awake.”
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Check this link for a riveting story and assignment on Father Frechette and his mission work in Haiti. The assignment is required for SCI…Extra Credit for all others. Assignments due Monday March 8.
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PLEASE fast with us from 7:30 AM Thursday Morning February 25 until 7:30 AM Friday Morning February 26.
In solidarity with those suffering in Haiti, we choose not to eat any food for twenty four hours. The money you would have spent on your own meals can be donated to Mr. Pierre-Louis Monfort and the Tuberculosis Sanitarium where he works and lives in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. To learn more about Mr. Monfort, his cause, and our efforts please watch the music video, listen to our podcast, and print out the flyer below. For more information on the FAST and on what you can do for those suffering in Haiti, look here or stop by the information table located in cafeteria during lunch. Thank you.
Music Video - Produced by Celeste Wackerle and Brandon Wilde
Please download our flyer, print our flyer, circulate our flyer, and join us in an effort to Help Heal Haiti. Flyer design by Nyssa Swanson.
Music is huge part of Haitian culture. Look and Listen here to find eight stories from NPR that deal with music, and with the Haitian people and their struggle to survive.
The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus once wrote that there was a type of 
suffering so intense that, even in our sleep, it bores into the heart until eventually, “in our own despair, against our will,” it taps into a terrible wisdom.
New York Times
Do you really want to know about the suffering and hope that is going on down in Haiti? Read this story – from February 6, 2010 by Ian Urbina of the New York Times.
We would like to acknowledge the Muskegon Chapter of the American Red Cross for giving us permission to use their “red cross” for our T-shirts, Carrie Underwood for her rendition of “So Small”, and Ian Urbina of the New York Times for his February 6, 2010 story on Haiti and for his efforts in providing us a way to send our donations to Pierre-Louis Monfort in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Simply grotesque conditions.
What is all the more upsetting is that two of my friends, one named Jake, claimed that they were sick of hearing about Haiti.
“We’re already sending them tons of money,” Jake had said. “And now they want even more.”
“Well, yeah,” I replied. “That’s because their capital was destroyed and their entire country, which was already mired in poverty, filth, and disease, is falling even more apart.”
“Well,” he smugly replied, sure of his correctness. “We have a lot of problems of our own in this country. We need to stop worrying about other countries and focus on our own.”
Yes… problems of our own. Like our entire population starving, a complete lack of infrastructure, the remnants of our crippled government squandering the aid dollars to line their own pockets, and so many prevalent diseases that it’s dangerous just to be around other people… but, you don’t have a choice because you have to live in a massive shanty town.
Simply repulsive ignorance out there.
This kind of ignorance actually exists, guys.
This article is so intense, and I think that the writer did an amazing job. I love quotes, so when he used that quote, especially since it was so fitting, it amazed me.
Dear Mr. Wood,
I am so happy to hear that you are still making a difference in this world. I would love to help and donate. I live in Texas now, but if you could give me an address and who I may write a check to, and give the T-shirt to someone that was not able to donate, but would like a shirt.
I was listening to the radio and heard that Haiti rasied $255 million, but they had only received $80 million of it. I thought that was weird and how could that happen. some supported the issue that they are saving some of the donations for the Red Cross and putting it away for future disasters. Just a thought for you.
Great hearing from you!! Savannah!
Thank you deary! That is soooo sweet. I am posting your message. That would be nice of you to join us. I hope life is good!
Hei Mr. Wood, I’d also like to donate. Just send me the address and I’ll write a check. I’ll also be participating in the fast on Thursday.
Dani
Dani Patton you are beautiful! OHS – Help Heal Haiti / Oakridge High School / 5493 East Hall Road / Muskegon, MI 49442
Bob,
Want to wish you all the best on today’s fast. Just saw this today, but we are supporting you. In fact, here’s a great article I just read about what is going on down in Haiti.
James
Caring for orphans, ransoming hostages, burying the dead-it’s all in a day’s work for Father Rick Frechette.
by Matt Labash
In the barbaric cave for the dead
Known in Creole as simply ‘mog’
My trembling hand blesses them
May the angels lead you far, far from here
And do so in all haste
You and this throng of dead that surround you
-Father Rick Frechette, from
Haiti: The God of Tough Places, The Lord of Burnt Men
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
<a href="“>Check this link to read the article in its entirety.