Salem-based Haiti mission needs church to sort supplies
SALEM – A Salem-based medical mission to Haiti is asking for a church to volunteer to take in donations for Haiti, to sort them and to pack them to send to the island nation devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Angle Missions Haiti Director Vanessa A. Carpenter of Salem put out the plea Jan. 14, as she was packing and making arrangements for donated private planes to fly herself and volunteer medical teams into Haiti.
“We don’t know about our clinic building in Port-au-Prince,” Carpenter said, in between answering telephone calls with offers of aid, and details of getting to Haiti four teams of medical volunteers from Virginia, Missouri, Florida and Massachusetts.
“Our Street Boys program building collapsed, with our boys inside. Some of our people are fine. A couple are in critical condition we are trying to fly out. We have gotten the injured boys to a hospital outside of Port-au-Prince, but the hospital has no medical supplies to treat them.”
Representatives of any church willing to take in donated items for Angel Missions Haiti, to sort them and pack them to send to Haiti should contact Carpenter at 540-380-4588.
To make monetary donations, see the website www.AngelMissionsHaiti.org, and for more information, AngelMissionsHaiti.blogspot.com.
In non-crisis times, Carpenter and the project she started arrange for Haitian children who need medical care for such treatable conditions as cleft palates and heart conditions to be flown to the United States for donated services, and to stay in foster homes until they can return to Haiti.
