Monday night our team of 47 had a party unpacking all the donations we had brought for the Haitian people. It was happy mayhem as we unloaded and sorted many hundreds of kilos of clothing, shoes, household goods, toiletries, school supplies and toys. We separated out some that are designated for a school, some for an orphanage, and the rest will be available daily at our clinics at a "free store" to bless those who come. At Impact Nations we believe in rescuing the whole person; physically, spiritually, economically and practically. We have purchased thousands of dollars of medicine. A local dentist whose clinic was lost in the earthquake, went with one of our team to purchase dental supplies and equipment, which we will leave with her when we go. This is possible through donations from some Australian friends, and a hairdresser in Richmond, BC, Canada. We are also using funds that have come into our Haiti relief project to purchase various building supplies for our team to use in the reconstruction work they will do.
Be sure to read Sheri's news about donations from Calgary. Here is a list (only partial, I'm sure) of the corporate type donations I'm aware of:
- Shopper's Drug Mart; 70 pounds of over the counter medicine and toiletries, wound care supplies
- Midland Liquidators Vancouver; help with tarps, work gloves and flashlights
- Carriage House Calgary; 4 dozen sheets, hundreds of shampoo, soaps, conditioners and lotion
- Bell Canada; 100 t-shirts
- Mark's work Warehouse; shorts and t-shirts
- Totem; 90 pairs work gloves
- Wembley Pharmacy Parksville; toothpaste and brushes
- Starbucks; coffee packets, tea, sugar, toothpaste and brushes
- BC Ambulance Service; medical supplies
- Cabury's; Halls and Trident
- Guardian Nursery Quallicum; work gloves
- Dr. Schmitt; toothbrushes
- Haitians and employees of AT&T in Orlando Florida; a suitcase of donated items
- National Bank Financial (Victoria); 86 pounds of donated clothing plus cash donations
- BC Children's Hospital employees; donated clothing, feminine hygiene and baby products
- Powell River Evangel church; funds to purchase goods
- Powell River school; sock puppets made by grade 3 & 4 kids (going to the local school)
- Whiteside French Immersion School Richmond BC; 50 pounds of French library books
- Kirkbride School, Surrey BC; 50 pounds of school supplies
So far my personal favorite story I've heard is the 92 year old woman from Victoria who wished that she could come to help, but went home and sewed 2 sundresses to send to 2 little girls here. I promise we will take a picture!
Today we head out to do our first clinic, next to a tent city here in Carrefour. The construction team will also be working on a project.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen.
Update from Hazel Turcotte on June 27, 2010 at 7:21pm 
Update from Ken and Deb Ermter on June 17, 2010 at 3:23am 
Update from JED Rosano on June 16, 2010 at 5:45pm 
Update from Sabrina Ormsby on June 16, 2010 at 2:00pm 
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