Earthquake in Haiti

The Nebraska Global Orphan Project was very saddened to learn about the most recent natural disaster, a massive earthquake that happened on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 12, 2010. We have such a love for Haiti and the people there and have gotten involved with financially supporting an orphanage called Fayeton with 250 children. We visited this summer in July and came back and made our committment to these children for $150,000 per year for the next three years. Our hope is that the orphanage can be self-sustaining after three years as the children get older and can become involved in economic development. At this time we have not been able to confirm their safety. They are some distance from the epicenter of the earthquake and we are hoping and praying that they are alright. Even in normal circumstances food and clean drinking water have to be delivered to them on a weekly basis. With the conditions in Haiti this may be a challenge at this time. You can see video of these precious children on our website at www.theNebraskaglobalorphanproject.org

Our partners from Kansas City, The Global Orphan Project (formerly C3) are en route to Haiti to check on all of the children they are responsible for in Haiti, (just over 2,000) and to provide assistance wherever they can. Joe Knittig is one of those people en route. They also traveled to Haiti to do first-responder efforts after the hurricanes in 2008. They will most definetely run into more orphans that will add to their numbers just as they did after the hurricanes.

Once they get to Haiti and are able to travel around to the different orphanges we will start to get information back that we can put on our blog to keep everyone informed and up to date. We have had so many asking the status of the children and this blog will be the easiest way to communicate with everyone who is interested. As we know more we will post more. Thank you your interest in the safety of these precious children.