Haiti earthquake: death toll may hit 200,000
Anger has turned to violence on the streets of Haiti as survivors lose patience with the painfully slow process of getting international aid after the earthquake that authorities say may have killed 200,000 people.
“We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies,” Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Haiti’s interior minister told Reuters. “We anticipate there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number.”
Around 40,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves.
When the situation in Haiti first happened it seemed so far from home like it was a world away and it was hard for me to feel the tragedy. When a friend of mine who goes to Haiti regularly on mission trips shared her pain and personal stories of people she knows there I begin to go from sympathy to empathy. As the poorest country in the Western hemisphere it’s important that we all reach out and help in any way we can.
Donate to Haiti relief, visit www.redcross.org or call 1-800-REDCROSS. Mobile donors can text “Haiti” to 90999 to make a $10 contribution.
If you can’t donate financially you can offer your prayers for the missing people to be found, families to be reunited, people to be healed and for resources to be be supplied. Let’s do what we can to help Haiti by being an extension of Love and hope.