Urgent Financial Donations Still Needed for Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti

Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners, Ministry In Mission and Mission:Haiti to send emergency funds to Haiti during this critical humanitarian crisis due to the current political unrest. So far, LCC was able to send $6000 in financial support for food to our mission partners.
 
The situation in Haiti is desperate and at this time we can only send money to help our brothers and sisters. A recent article published in the New York Times paints an alarming picture of the humanitarian crisis in Haiti. Read the article here.
 
In the words of Helen M. Roenfeldt, Mission Director at Mission:Haiti “the situation in Haiti is becoming a true humanitarian crisis. Many, many people are unable to work, earn money or purchase food… families who rely on school lunches to feed their children, can't send their kids to school and can't afford food because they can't go to work because roads are blocked… the elderly have not eaten for days at a time.”

“Gas, diesel and propane costs have nearly doubled… schools, banks, government offices, and hospitals are closed or closing due to lack of electricity and supplies,” shares Helen. “Normal commerce is at a virtual standstill in the entire nation. It is no overstatement to say that people are dying because of the situation. 
 
Rampant inflation has doubled the cost of food; a bag of rice that will feed a family of 4 for nearly a month used to cost $1750 gordes, now costs close to $3500 gordes, and most Haitians make less than 200 gordes a day, when they can work.”
 
Thirty dollars will buy enough rice, oil, maggi, canned fish, spaghetti, and soup to feed one person two meals a day for three weeks. LCC Haiti mission partners are helping the most nutritionally vulnerable but need financial support to do so.

Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities send emergency funds to Haiti to help provide food for Haitian adults and children. Join LCC as we pray for the protection of the Haitian people and our mission partners, and for peace in Haiti.

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