Art Creation Foundation For Children - Jacmel Haiti
To empower and build community via provision of arts education and fulfillment of life needs for impoverished children in Jacmel, Learn More
Cause Bulletin
From Jen and Guy Pantaleon of zanmilakay who are with our ACFFC children right now
PLEASE CLICK ON LINK AS WELL TO SEE PHOTOS. Haiti Update #2-Saturday 30 January 2010 Posted in Newsletter on January 31st, 2010 by Jen – Comments Off Not sure where to begin or where I left off. Internet access comes and goes, but we are lucky to have it at all. There is no electricity that we found in PauP, but there ar… Read More
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ART CREATION FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
OUR CAUSE CONTRIBUTION:
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Wow, we have reached over 1000 members. Fantastic. And our children are surviving, taking it day by day, as are our fantastic staff and artists, their families et al. Now, if everyone made a donation ... we would know that these children will be secure for a long time to come and they will participate in the rebuilding of Haiti.
Wow, we have almost 1000 members here. If everyone donated $20??? We need so much help, more than you can know. The children are eating now, they are traumatized, we hopefully have a child psychologist (kreyol speaking) heading to Jacmel next week. So much need. Just about everyone's homes are gone or will be torn down - even thinking about rebuild is beyond me. It will soon be rainy season and while we are getting tents, problems will be huge. Our building stands but until it is certain that the aftershocks have stopped, no one will sleep inside a three story concrete building. This is just beyond comprehension. No photos last day or so because the internet system is problematic now ... so we are back to phone calls and texting. Haiti is so close to South Florida, yet so far!
Two plane loads of food (2500 lbs each) delivered for ACFFC to use and to share with the community thanks to GO Ministries. We are beyond grateful. These folks are incredible.
It's important to contribute as much as we can for the childrens immediate needs, but also for this cause not to get lost over the long term. I'm thinking of ways to try and help turn this tragedy into a tribute to the resilient spirit and creativity of the people of Haiti, even in a small way.
Jen and Guy Pantaleon of zanmi lakay and friends/partners of ACFFC is now with our children. Please see her blog or facebook posting for images. they are incredibly powerful and truthful which is most important. She has been traveling to Haiti for years and her husband is Haitian - they know reality. http://www.zanmilakayblog.org/
We will contact the hospital and any/all doctors we knowand get them tetanus shots ... also worried about parasites in the water ... heavens knows how it is purified now ...
So, let me get this straight: children are dying in Haiti of TETANUS, while Florida's (Republican) Gov. Christ is blocking evacuations because he feels our trauma system is overwhelmed? This is completely unbelievable and unacceptable and wrong.
Unbelievable.
To all of my Facebook friends, and especially those of you in health care who understand the absurdity of this situation, please donate $25 to Art Creation Foundation for Children (artforhatitanchildren.org, or via this page). Your donation will not merely support our children and their artwork (which is now very much art THERAPY, in the wake of this horrible disaster). It will also support their health care and nutrition.
Thank you so much to those who have already donated. Please, please, please to everyone to just help us a little more.
To Judy (Art Creation Foundation for Children's President and Founder): let's spend $100 and I will find a way to get 75 of our kids and maybe some of their families tetanus immunizations/boosters.
Yes, folks. It is that inexpensive to prevent tetanus, but time is of the essence.
Doctor: Haitians will die without U.S. airlifts - Haiti earthquake- msnbc.com
Our children, families, artists, staff are holding their own but it is without question taking its toll. They are stressed emotionally, physically, and thank heavens for art, as it keeps them busy and gives them a voice. Aid is spotty and the cost of food has skyrocketed, so I ask that, even if you have already donated, please give again. We need to keep our children whole. Yes, there is money pouring in to the Red Cross, etc. however many organizations such as ours on the ground, 100%+ efficient and in high level relief mode are not seeing much (a few bags of rice and beans from the Haitian Kross) at all. So, I am asking you all, every FB Cause member, to donate $20 because if you do, we will have over $18,000 and what a difference that would make to our children and also to their families. You can do it. And if $20 is a stretch, ask your friends to help. 910 caring people can change the lives of 910 caring people multiplied ten fold and then some. So please make a $20 donation to ACFFC. And ask one friend to join the Cause and do the same, and we will have 1820 members and over $36,000 for the children and the community in Jacmel - all because of you.
Every day, despite this horror, it seems as if we welcome a new partner to the ACFFC family ... Brown International Academy in Denver, Alan Kessler Karate Centers in Massachusetts, Andy Johnson/his son/friends/business community in Lahaina Hawaii ... incredible.
Just paying it forward - I had some good fortune this weekend and wanted to share with those who need it most. Please do what you can. thanks.
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Please see Jen Pantaleon's blog www.zanmilakayblog.org ... she and Guy are with the ACFFC children and she describes the memorial they planned for this morning in lieu of Kanaval. She also describes what our children have been doing, right in the center of it all. I spoke with her this morning and she said the procession was somber, with a funeral band, several hundred people walking, stopping in the neighborhoods, and finally ending up at the cemetary where they buried the banners and black armbands people wore. The children had a dot of black paint on their faces. She will post images. That was this morning. 30 minutes ago, I received a call from GO Ministries (fantastic people, see NY Times article) and now our children et all are headed back to the Jacmel airstrip to pick up 5000 lbs of food for ACFFC and to share. Had I not received the call, etc. food would not be coming to us. It is not about me, it is about the crazy way so many of us have connected to make a differece. And yet the World Food folks think we are too small an organization to be helped, Programme Alimentation Mondial (UN) ignores us, Haitian Kross gave us a few bags of rice, no Red Cross (or at least our folks can not find them). On the other hand, the medical organizations and medical care folks showing up are amazing, and all the connecting online to coordinate is miraculous. Please continue to donate, all our children's families are homeless as are our artists and staff.