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Ktadb

  A couple days before leaving Haiti, I found myself trying to get as much done as possible in a very little time.

One of the tasks at hand was to check on Pastor Brevyl Innocent who shepherds a church that will soon be in our church to church program.

While sitting in his church chatting, I kept getting distracted by looking out the door. This is what I saw across the street.


A week before, one of my translators made a comment about “middle class tent communities.”

The more I thought about the statement, the more I realized in an odd way it’s true.

There are higher, middle and lower class tent communities.

Under that are Tarp Communities…

However, under that there are bed sheet communities. Some of these people live in parks, in street medians, on old garbage dumps or really any where they can find. These communities have “houses” made of sticks and bed sheets. They’ll literally rip pieces off of their bed sheets to use as strings to tie the rest of the bed sheet to the sticks that make up their house. They’ll peruse through the garbage to find the next best thing to build

with. You would be surprised at the ingenuity of some through this process.

However, the truth of their condition still remains. The winds are coming more frequently and they are bringing the rain…

spreading the diseases…

and bringing the mosquitos…

Those that have found rocks to make a bed find themselves sleeping on ground not completely sopping wet.

Those lucky enough to find some cardboard, might even have somewhat of a cushion on these rocks or broken pieces of rubble.

Then there are those who just have mud or cardboard to work with and hope that they can weather the storm.

The pictures above were taken less than one week ago. The Earthquake that shook the world through Haiti happened on Jan. 12th. That’s four months ago! After four months, this community still hasn’t received a tarp or help from an organization. I’d like to say this is the last community left without help so far…but I’m positive it isn’t. However, God led me to it for a reason and my prayer is that we can get them some help.

Or if you would just like the facts:

There are 3,462 people that live in this community.
They live in 577 “shelters”…not to the tarp or tent level yet.
That means that each of the little shelters above on average houses 6 people.
The name of this community is Ktadb and they need your help.

You can be praying for the leader of the community and the pastor who lives nearby.

Pastor Brevyl
Innocent
is on the left

Alcindor
Jn.
Samson, the village leader is on the right

OR…If you are led to donate money to get resources and food to this community, or if you would like to go yourself to Haiti to help out, you can click here:
(To get money to Ktadb specifically, you’ll have to write “for Ktadb” on the memo of your check or on a note with your payment.)



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