We are now loading our second 40 ft. container with clothes, a generator, a pallet of solar panels. shoes, clothes, towels, shampoo, aspirin, canned food, tents, more medical supplies, toys, etc. It’s easy anyone can do this.
What’s going too happen when it rains let alone the next hurricane comes, there are a million kids and their families in tents. They are only 600 miles away about the distance from Miami to Atlanta. An hour and a half flight.
We can get all the containers we can fill shipped to Haiti in 3 days. If you have anything you want to ship. Contact: www.monarchshipping.com and ask for R.J. Tell him we sent you.
Why don’t they drop thousands of small parachutes with lighter weight packages of supplies (so they won’t crush people) down to numerous less densly populated areas, instead of in the center of town (to further reduce the risk of injury and rioting)? Remember the Berlin airlift drooping candy to the kids in WWII ? Next time this sort of thing happens they should try something different than trying to drive trucks right into the middle of town where they will be immediately surrounded with desperate people.
Fritz Blaize, a Haitian installer that works for us, went to Haiti, to meet the people at Mercy and Sharing, meet the ship, to get a truck and a driver to help deliver the medical supplies to Mercy and Sharing’s warehouse 35 miles outside of Haiti. It’s about a 3 hr. drive. Last time we talked to him he was in Port au Prince and his report was we should all pray not just for Haiti but for ourselves - that God will spare us from ever having to experience what he is seeing.
A friend of mine, Mr. Francisco Martinez, is giving us tons of stuff from the hotel storage from his 10 hotels on South Beach, blankets, sheets, beds, towels, etc. He’s a great guy (made 50 movies, Nat. Spanish gymnastics champion, etc.,) willing to help..
We came up with a new plan for getting a lot more donations. In Miami we have this huge warehouse district in Doral. Find the suppliers of the supplies we need and go see them. They are very likely willing to give you a pallet of stuff ready to go. They may even deliver it for you, if it is several pallets.. Much better than a bag of clothes. We are compiling a list now Beans, Coffee, Rice, medical, tents, water, etc. We have hired a coordinator who will oversee this plan. She and a couple other girls in the office will go to a mapped out section of the most relevant warehouses and ask for a whatever they can spare.