Have You Seen Her?: Still searching for Ann-Marie Dorville of Delmas, Haiti. My mother's god-daughter.
A few days ago my mom received some welcome news. Cousins from my father’s side who we were also concerned about were confirmed alive and well in a town outside of Port au Prince. Shortly after, we spoke to my mother’s relatives in Boston who reported that her younger sister is doing fine. She is in Carrefour, Haiti in a neighborhood that was not affected. She is staying longer until she can figure out how to return home.
We haven’t confirmed through contacts the whereabouts of my mother’s goddaughter yet, though another contact had mentioned that the neighborhood she lives in really wasn’t touched. It’s highly likely that she’s okay too. We continue to remain hopeful.
We thank everyone who has prayed for us, passed along photos and information.
The Work is Not Over
Just because we have received good news about our Haitian relatives, doesn’t mean that we are checking out of contributing to the relief and rebuilding efforts. We donated multiple times to relief organizations and plan to make that sacrifice to donate the rest of the year. I urge you not to check out either even if you’ve donated money already.
I’ve provided a short list of other ways to help Haiti through donating materials, sky miles, medical kits and your time.
Other Ways to Help:
Haitian Alliance – (Atlanta area) collecting water, food, clothing etc
International Rescue Committee – make online gifts of medical supplies, ready to eat meals, survival kits
Daily Travel & Deal Blog - Donate frequent flier miles to relief organizations
Mercy Corps - Build a fundraising page to accept group donations.
Donate your computer savvy – if you are computer savvy, offer to help people who aren’t by setting up profile pages on cnn.com’s looking for the missing section, Google’s people finder or set up a Facebook page and send out Tweets on their behalf.
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I also encourage you to watch and read news reports from other countries to get another view of what is going on . While the American cameras tend to show the drama: “scenes of looting, reporters rescuing people from crowds or performing medical wonders” – there are other perspectives that they’re not showing. Make sure you get a different point of view.
