Emergency Disaster Fund sends aid to Haiti.

An allocation of $10,000 has been made from the General Board's Emergency Disaster Fund in support of an expanded Church World Service (CWS) appeal for materials and aid for Haiti, following the violent overthrow of the government in March. Despite the presence of an international military force, political violence continues to disrupt everyday life in Haiti, according to the grant request.

The funds will help provide a variety of aid and services including first aid, legal assistance, food security, health assistance, agricultural recovery, income-generating activities, psycho-social assistance, and conflict resolution in nine Haitian provinces. An initial grant of $5,000, made in March, supported an emergency air shipment of food and medicine.

This week, staff of the board's Service Ministries program at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., packed and shipped a CWS container shipment for Haiti valued at $151,003. The shipment included 25,000 pounds of canned meat, 25 Interchurch Medical Assistance Medicine Boxes, 185 cartons of school supplies, and 700 cartons of Mennonite Central Committee refugee buckets. This week's shipment follows on the heels of the March shipment that was channeled through the Dominican Republic to assist Haitian refugees along the Haitian-Dominican border.

Source: Newsline 5/7/2004
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