Haiti Earthquake Relief

UNICEF estimates there are about 230,000 unaccompanied children in the emergency relief camps. They will seek to find parents or close family members for them but there will be thousands of new orphans needing a loving home!

Our Haiti and Dominican Republic (DR) staff and missionaries are preparing to care for the orphans when they are properly identified and released into our care.
-Temporary housing has been assembled at our home in Haiti. Land has been identified and in the processes of being purchased. A permanent Children's Village is being planned and could break ground this summer.
-At our DR sites, we are prepared and have received small groups of children from the government there.

Our goal is to bring as many as we can into our loving homes! How many to receive is a big decision because once we take kids in, they will become a permanent part of our Kids Alive family.

To a large extent, the scope of our response to these thousands of newly orphaned boys and girls is dependent on our supporters. Your generous gift today will assist these helpless children in the name of Jesus.

Please pray for the children, staff and missionaries and check this page regularly for updates.

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UPDATE:

June 28, 2010 - Orphans from the earthquake have started arriving to our Residential Homes in Cap Haitian. The children have come from an orphanage which suffered damage in the earthquake. They had been sleeping outside under tarps as more newly orphaned children found their way there. Kids Alive will be bringing about 50 of these kids into our Homes.

April 20, 2010 - We received four more Haitian children in Jarabacoa. They were found walking by the side of the highway just north of Santo Domingo. They were taken into custody by the Dominican government who promptly asked us to care for them. The plan is for them to recuperate with us while UN officials search for their parents and family in Port au Prince.

April 8, 2010 - Update on the 3 boys from Haiti that made there way to the DR - relatives in Haiti have been found for them and they have returned to family. One mother was overwhelmed with joy when she was reunited with her child she thought had died in the earthquake. Praise God for reuniting these families, and giving Kids Alive an opportunity to share His love while they were with us.

February 22, 2010 - The first of the Haiti orphans arrived today in the Dominican Republic! The three boys all lost their single parents in the earthquake and were found living under a bridge at the border. They were brought to the Kids Alive home in Jarabacoa by social services.

February 1, 2010 - Al Lackey, President of Kids Alive, called from Port au Prince today. He is encouraged by the cooperation of the different aid organizations and US military. Refugee camps seem well supplied and the children without adults are being processed, identified, fed, and medically treated. He met with several officials to move the process along of receiving children into our care. Child Trafficking is now a major concern so the Haiti government is being very cautious.

January 28, 2010 - The IRS has made a provision that contributions made for Haiti relief after 1/11/2010 and before 3/1/2010 can be deducted your year 2009 return even though the gift was made in 2010 (or you can choose to wait until you file your 2010 return next year). You should keep the tax-deductible receipt as proof of the contribution.

January 27, 2010 - Sent a truckload of materials for construction of temporary housing to our facility in Cap Haitian. We have delivered fuel, food and medicine from Santiago to Port au Prince for other missions including hospitals. Overall, we have probably delivered over 10,000 gallons of generator fuel. We are optimistic that we will have some kids to care for in the DR shortly.

January 24, 2010 - Al Lackey, president of Kids Alive, shares his vision that the relief efforts in Haiti are not complete "Until Every orphan has a Home"™.

January 23, 2010 - There has been a delay in receiving the children. They will remain in the hospital for a few more days. In Haiti, good contacts are being made and we are prepared to receive children there.

January 20, 2010 - Kids Alive has been in contact with officials from the US and DR government to facilitate receiving the displaced children. After shocks rattled nerves at our home in Cap Haitien but caused no damage. The first construction team will be heading down next week to build temporary houses and bathrooms.

January 18, 2010 - In cooperation with other ministries, Kids Alive DR is transporting a bus load of fuel to keep a hospital, just outside of Port au Prince, back up generators working. This hospital has been swamped with earthquake victims and would have had no power tomorrow without this fuel. Our site in Cap Haitien is being supplied with tents, cots, and sleeping bags to prepare for the arrival of evacuated children. Our homes in the DR are buying supplies and more beds for the arrivals. Staff and kids are excited to be part of the rescue efforts.

January 15, 2010 - Field Director, Vic Trautwein, has met with government officials in the DR. Lost children and orphans are being identified now and may start arriving in the DR Kids Alive facilities! We are making plans for their arrival. Please pray!

January 14, 2010 - Missionaries in Haiti express concern for increased cost of basic supplies like food and fuel. Plans are being made to take in as many orphans as we can as soon as they have been identified by officials into our unharmed housing in the north of Haiti and possibly in the DR.