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Register-Star Article by John Mason

Haitian Community Seeks Help for Battered Homeland

COLUMBIA COUNTY — A group of local Haitian-Americans are working to send help to those affected by flooding in their native country.

Having been battered by Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike, parts of Haiti are a living hell. In the low-lying coastal city of Gonaives, the government has given up trying to count the dead, because the ones who do the counting have all lost their homes.

Goinaives is “the first place of Haitian independence,” said Carline Murphy of Niverville, a native of Haiti. “They’re working to preserve historic artifacts in that town.”

From a contact in Pennsylvania, Murphy learned that the water is “considered receded” because it’s “up to their hips. Before, it flooded the farms and the houses. The furniture is gone.”

Four out of five homes are damaged; every remaining home is a shelter. Rivers of mud were up to the rooftops. Many bodies are buried in mass graves without coffins. Murphy works with the Haitian Community Development Project. She said it’s a major problem to find food in parts of Haiti.

“If you have money, you can’t buy (food),” she said. “It’s not available for purchase.” However, Murphy found a Brooklyn organization that has warehouses in Haiti. “I called a company yesterday,” she said. “They have a price list: Oil, milk, whatever you need, they have it in their warehouse.”

The cost for delivery within the city is $6; to deliver to the provinces is $12.

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