Embark on Haiti Emergency Relief

Thursday, 14 January 2010 13:39

In the wake of the worst earthquake in 240 years, Haiti is in chaos after a destructive 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

Infamous for the ‘mud cookie,' (baked mud eaten and sold by locals to stave off hunger pangs) Haiti is one of the poorest countries in Central America with 50% of the 9 million people population surviving on less than one dollar a day. The already poor infrastructure conditions worsened with the earthquake damage, with an estimated death toll already reaching a hundred thousand victims, and expanding to a third of the entire population.

“Little childrens' corpses are left beside school wreckage and wounded people wander around shed with blood,” The Associated Press reports. “Doctors are treating patients in hotel parking lots, wrapping peoples' heads and suturing rib cages."

Good Neighbors is a nonprofit organization mainly with specialty in emergency relief with 20 years of experience including activity during Rwanda Genocide. For the Haiti catastrophe, Good Neighbors is deploying an emergency relief team, with the assignment of Byung Hee Lee as team captain, who is one of the leading emergency relief experts from Korea who also served as team captain during disasters in the 2003 Iran Bam earthquake and the 2005 Pakistan earthquake. Good Neighbors is planning to initialize Haiti emergency relief with an estimated 100,000 USD, including providing shelter and medical aid, food and beverage, which is mostly needed by the people in Haiti, especially selecting locations with many children and pregnant women, providing nutrient supply program for them with further plan for second medical supply deployment.

For any support and donations for the Haiti Earthquake, Please send a check to:

Good Neighbors USA
P.O. Box 31758
Los Angeles, CA 90031

We are also recruiting doctors in medicine (internal, external, pediatric, obstetrics), pharmacists, short-term missionaries and volunteers. Please call us at 1-877-499-9898 for any other help, including medical supplies and donation from churches and organizations.