Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna and Ike have left St. Michel de L’Attalaye, a remote rural community in NE Haiti with washed out roads, and extreme flooding. Our partners in this area are literally drowning in a watery hell due to extreme flooding; they need EMERGENCY help: food, water, meds, blankets and clothing. Frontiers Foundation has been supporting this region with social and economic development projects for the last three decades. At FF, we are asking you, the concerned citizen, to contact your MPs to ask Federal government to make sure that a portion of the already approved five million dollars be directed to the St. Michel de L’Attalaye disaster.

Flooded house in Haiti
The situation: out of a population of with a population of 30,000, 14,000 homes have been flooded; 966 homes destroyed; and 500 people have been stranded with no food or water for six days (finally reached by donkey). All roads to Gonaives, Cap Haitien, and St. Raphael have been wahsed out. The airport is inoperable.

NEEDED IMMEDIATELY

1. At least some of five million approved dollars in emergency Canadian aid must go to St. Michel.
2. Hercules and Globelifter cargo aircraft. To overfly St. Michel and parachute aid packages of food, water and meds into St. Michel Town Square.
3. Phone, E-Mail or personal visits to federal campaign offices of your MPs.

ACTION TO DATE

1. Frontiers Foundation wired $10,000 September 8. 2008
2. One UN helicopter brought water, medicine and cookies, once.