Haiti
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Newspaper Articles:
Needs List:
towels, sheets
plastic cups and plates
water
diapers
purel, rice, canned food
can openers
oil, flour, dehydrated milk
sandals
motrin for children, Advil
Gatorade, gauze, gloves
benadine
T-shirts
children summer clothes
( slightly
used or next to new )
tarps, bungee's, five-gallon plastic buckets, propane cooking stoves
crutches, walkers, flashlights, cooking
pans,
utensils, cots, paper towels
toilet paper, blankets
alcohol, and
peroxide, Construction Material
Hope For Haiti via our Mission of Love
Mission of
Love ready to go to Haiti
By J.T. Whitehouse
Town Crier
The
volunteers of the Mission of Love (MOL), based in Austintown, is hard at
work preparing for their next mission, delivering aid to Haiti’s
children. MOL founder Kathy Price said everything is falling in place to
deliver aid to those in need.
“Right now it
is all geared up for the government to move in and help the people by
delivering rice and water,” Price said. “But down the road, when
everyone else forgets about the disaster, we will be going in to help
the children.”
Price and her
army of volunteers never stop. They just returned from the orphanage in
Casa Guatemala where they installed the first toilets for the children.
They also took a medical crew to help bring care where there is
literally none to be found.
“We
just returned from the Casa Guatemala
Orphanage, to find out that Haiti is in need and is within our reach,”
Price said.
Wasting no
time, Price contacted the air base in Vienna and spoke with the
commander. She also contacted the Denton Program that permits
humanitarian aid to be transported by military aircraft. The program is
a win-win situation with aid reaching anywhere in the world while
military aircraft crews get some real-life training.
“Everyone is
waiting,” Price said. “All we have to do is send in the Denton
application.”
Part of the
application requires what materials are being shipped. Price said that
is what the hold up is at this point. The MOL must wait until donations
are in to see what they have to ship to Haiti. Price said the needs are
as follows: monetary donations to make it happen-written out to the
Mission of Love, 2054 Hemlock Court, Austintown, Ohio, 44515,
towels,
sheets, plastic cups and plates, water, diapers, purel, rice, canned
food, can openers, oil, flour, dehydrated milk, sandals, motrin for
children, Advil, Gatorade, gauze, gloves, benadine, T-shirts, children
summer clothes, ( slightly used or next to new ) tarps, bungee's,
five-gallon plastic buckets, propane cooking stoves, crutches, walkers,
flashlights, cooking pans, utensils, cots, paper towels, toilet paper,
blankets, alcohol, and peroxide.
“I would
encourage and challenge schools, churches, civic organizations,
businesses and those who are so blessed to show their kindness to the
Haitians in need,” Price said. “Be an example of what can be done to be
of service.”
Already Price
is getting responses. some coming from the most unusual places. When she
got back from Guatemala, she was contacted by a dear freind and strong
supporter of the Mission of Love. Her name is Luana Rubin, owner of
eQuilter.com. Rubin was on a trip with 30 other quilters to Kyoto,
Japan. When she saw the devastation in Haiti, she knew Price would be
preparing to help the children involved in it.
“We are following the terrible news
about Haiti from here, and everyone here feels the same way I know you
do - what can we do to help?” Rubin
wrote.
Since, she
has prepared to return to the U.S. and with her fellow quilters prepare
quilts to be sent to the many homeless in Haiti.
On the local
front, Price has set up temporary drop-off collection sites at all the
Handel’s Ice Cream stores in the Youngstown area. The sites will be open
for collection of the needed items until January 27.
Work of love in progress.