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Update on eagle.ca Haiti Relief Challenge

January 20, 2010
updated 11:30 a.m.

Less than a week and our Haiti Relief Challenge is at 10 ShelterBoxes and counting!

Last Thursday I asked eagleMembers and friends to help us send two ShelterBoxes to Haiti. By Friday afternoon we had hit four boxes. Monday we sent the first donations we to ShelterBox Canada... enough for six boxes. Today contributions for another four boxes will be sent.

Community groups sports teams and schools are organizing dances dress-down days and other fund raisers.

Despite what we see on the nightly news and read in the newspaper, the situation in Haiti is worse. The following message was posted on Monday by Dr. Hanscy Seide in Port-au-Prince (PAP):

To all of you, I am in Haiti. Let me make an assessment of the situation. It is worse than you see on TV. The situation is very, very, very, very critical. No central government, no food, water, money. Rescuers walking around waiting for orders. They stop randomly. They are the saviours. Multiple collapsed building still need to be evacuated. People walking with their bare hands and shovels to try to rescue loved ones trapped. Riot is a possibility. Desperation can lead to any reaction. We need you to organize. Get in touch with your local churches, and organizations. The border is widely open. We need MDs, mainly orthopedic surgeons. You have to be ready to treat and transport. Based on what I've seen, PAP has to be bulldozed and rebuild. The good news is, people are leaving PAP in mass in whatever way they can. All small towns need help. Please do your best. We also need your prayers. Haiti is in very bad shape. Forward this to your friends and family and tell them to organize and pray!

The first ShelterBoxes are being deployed in Haiti. Seven have been used to create a makeshift hospital at the Port-au-Prince airport and others are being used by local hospitals to shelter patients after surgery.

400 ShelterBoxes arrived from Miami on Tuesday and another 400 from Miami are due to arrive on a freighter today (Wednesday). 700 are scheduled to fly out of England directly for PAP and another 200 are expected to leave France today. 250 boxes from Curacao should reach PAP tomorrow. Virgin Atlantic has agreed to transport another 500 boxes to Miami. More than 3,000 ShelterBoxes have been committed to Haiti so far and more are being assembled around the clock.

eagle.ca's Haiti Relief Challenge will continue until at least February 5th. ShelterBox expects to send 10,000 boxes to Haiti over the next several months so we have a lot of work to do. ShelterBox Canada and the people of Haiti need our help now.

Please pass along our challenge to your friends, family and co-workers. The folks at ShelterBox Canada will appreciate the help, the people of Haiti will appreciate the ShelterBoxes and I appreciate the fact that we have all reached out and done a great thing... together.

Cheers,

-tom

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