Haiti - Gonaives Flood that killed thousands


Putting their lives back together will take years. However, they were in extreme poverty before. Let's help!

   
There were still traces of the flood
Cleaning out the ditches - bodies are still being found
Piles of mud everywhere
child looks for a place to play
 
Shoveling out the store
Children smile so easy
Life was not lost
Hard to escape it
Mother and daugther at their store
 
All the side streets were full of dirt
 
Cleaning up the yard
The sediment left behind from the flood.
Nowhere to play
Happy still
caring
homes barely livable
Homes washed away
Gone
Flood hit church Saturday while prayer service was on.
Pastor and wife
The flood rose to this hight
The back door where the water, pigs, goats and debri came rushing in
knocking a piece of the roof off 90 people escaped to the roof top.
The weight of the people caved the roof in. Clean-up time.
Church members work to clean-up and are paid with food.
Pastor and some of his children out front of their home
Pastor hung onto this steal rod to save his life and climb on his roof.
Pastors house number
Water rose to this level in their home.
The mud left behind was to this level
This is all that remains in their humble kitchen
This is the only matress this family of 7 owns
Kids know how to find joy
My friends and I are putting in 500 BioSand filters and containers of goods.
BioSand filters being made. Wells and toilets had been flooded.
Safe water is the foundation of health. Filter being well used.
Mother giving her daugther a drink
 
 
Three School children in the courtyard ready to go home.
 
 
 
 
A day well invested