God's Heart for Haiti

A friend and partner in the rebuilding of College Ste. Pierre passed on the following video to me about the demolition of the School.  All the footage is from College Ste. Pierre.  At one point in the video (shot about four weeks ago), they speculate as to the kind of temporary structures that will be used for the school.  As you can see from my posts below they have worked very quickly to put in place temporary structures so that the students could resume classes this past week.  You will find the video below interesting:

Source: Global Nomads Group

Steve Palisin – For The Sun News

After returning this afternoon to Myrtle Beach from a week in Haiti, a former Pawleys Island resident was frank in his reasons for his trip to help deliver hundreds of pounds of medical supplies donated locally for earthquake relief..”I went down there to be with my friends,” said Thomas “T.J.” Johnston, an Anglican bishop from St. Peter’s Church on the north side of Mount Pleasant.

Johnston and his wife of 28 years, Rees, have been active in mission work, and making many friends, in Haiti since 1987. He said he sees a resiliency in the Haitian people, “who have nothing and face overwhelming odds.”  He views the earthquake that struck last week as one huge “equalizer” in what he called a caste system in a country that has remained in decades of decline, of “haves and have-nots.” “For the last week, no one’s had anything,” Johnston said.

He desribed the density in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where “hundreds of thousands “of homeless people have filled all open spaces on streets into makeshift camps.

Johnston said the eight seconds of the 6.1 maganitude aftershock this week rocked him in bed, but that all the tremors make people scream en masse.

“I think to myself, ‘This his how it ended for some folks,’ ” he said.

Johnston said he hadn’t seen any news reports when in Haiti, but he felt encouraged by the increased organization and flow of relief he saw in the past 2 1/2 days from people from around the world, especially the generosity of Americans.

“I think the response has been remarkable,” he said.

Standing in sandals with a long backpack slung on his shoulders, ready for the ride back to suburban Charleston, Johnston said he brought only three sets of clothes along with two other duffle bags. His wife, Rees Johnston, did the driving for their trip home, where her husband was quick to answer to what he was looking most forward, after bathing with only a bucket for a week: “To take a bath or shower.”

Source:
Local Help Back in Town after Trip to Haiti, January 23, 2010, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, SC