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Haiti Earthquake Relief
Madison Meals for Haiti : Bethel Volunteer Opportunity! April 8, 9, and 10, 2010 | Website Come help us pack 500,000 meals for Haiti!
Madison Meals for Haiti During the 90 minutes that we ask you to donate, you will scoop meal ingredients and seal and box meal bags along with others that, like you, would like to help Haitians in general and Haitian kids in particular. In 90 minutes, each volunteer packs over 200 meals. We need a total of 2,400 volunteers to pack meals during 8 shifts on April 8th, 9th, and 10th. There are 300 slots available in each shift.
Bethel volunteers will have their $25.00 donation paid if they enter Bethel Lutheran Church Madison as their company team name.
1. To register for a meal packing shift, please click here
2. On the Availability Schedule, click on a date and shift that fits your schedule and an information box will open. Verify the date and time are correct, and check that there are volunteer openings for the shift you selected.
3. To register, click on New Participation and complete the registration form. Bethel volunteers will have their $25.00 donation paid if they enter Bethel Lutheran Church Madison as their company team name.
4. After you complete the form, click on Create Participation. Mark your calendar and join us to help pack 500,000 meals for Haiti!
If you need help using this registration system, please send an email to volunteer@mealsforhaiti.org
ELCA and Bethel's Disaster Response
On January 12 at 4:53 p.m., a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked the island country of Haiti, primarily impacting its capital of Port-au-Prince and its nearly two million residents. It is believed that over three million citizens of Haiti are affected. The epicenter of the quake was centered approximately 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince. Offices, hotels, houses and shops have collapsed.
Already one of the poorest countries in the world, this catastrophe will exacerbate the suffering felt by many already living with hunger and poverty.
ELCA Disaster Response is already working through long-standing partnerships on the ground to provide emergency food, water, shelter and medical supplies.
As of February 18, the ELCA has received over 30,406 gifts for Haiti Earthquake Disaster Response. Total income is $5,248,000. Of this, $4,928,000 is from direct gifts and $320,000 is the matching grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
Gifts are needed for the work of continued relief and for long-term community rehabilitation and other recovery activities. Thanks to the ongoing faithful giving of Lutherans for mission and world hunger, the ELCA pledges that 100% of gifts for Haiti Earthquake Disaster Response will be spent for this disaster.
Haiti Earthquake Situation Reports: Situation Report 1 - 01/22/2010 Situation Report 2 - 01/29/2010 Situation Report 3 - 02/05/2010 Situation Report 4 - 02/19/2010
How you can help: Lutheran World Federation’s Haiti Program, trusted and effective partners of the ELCA are in place on the ground in Haiti already helping earthquake survivors. The ELCA is the largest regular supporter of the LWF’s program in Haiti. The necessary work of providing food and shelter and in helping people to rebuild their lives is under way.
If you are moved to support this effort, you can write your check to Bethel - and include on the memo line that this is for Haiti help. We will forward on all contributions to the ELCA office for Haiti earthquake.
ELCA Disaster Response | Haiti Earthquake Relief | Blog Relief Highlights: • Shelter still prioritized as urgent need.
The ELCA has supported a multi-national, multi-lateral response to the earthquake that includes the coordination of relief and development agencies through Action by Churches Together (ACT) Alliance, to which the ELCA has been a member since 1995. Support has been provided to Lutheran World Relief (LWR) for material aid, Church World Service (CWS) for material aid and distribution on the ground, and Lutheran World Federation (LWF) to respond to the needs of affected individuals and families. The Lutheran World Federation has been present in Haiti for over two decades.
LWF Haiti has completed an initial survey to determine needs in the affected rural communities of Gressier, Leogane, Grand-Goave and Petit-Goave. These are 4 communes some 35-65kms west of Port-au-Prince which were at the epicentre of the earthquake. LWF has identified the more rural locations away from the town centers and the main roads as the main areas of intervention due to the needs and the lack of agencies present. LWF has been in contact with local authorities, OCHA and ACT Alliance members to ensure a coordinated effort. In these rural communes, LWF is planning to target 8200 families (households) with both immediate and longer term recovery support as follows: • 8,200 households for non-food items (NFIs) (jerry cans, plastic sheeting, hygiene kits, kitchen kits, blankets) • 8,200 households for one time food bucket distribution (one family for one week) • 5,000 households for transitional shelter support • 400 households for more permanent core shelter • 10,600 children for education • 2-4 youth groups in 2 communes trained in psychosocial support • 1,200 households for Livelihood Recovery activities
Helping Haiti: A Million Dollar Challenge - Updated
GOOD NEWS!!! $2 million turns into $3 million... Thrivent for Lutherans reports that, in just over three weeks, the Million Dollar Challenge has been attained.
Thrivent Financial added $1 to every $2 its members donated, up to a total Thrivent Financial contribution of $1 million. That means a potential of $3 million or more to support relief efforts.
Photos of your gifts at work:
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