Help
Needed in Dominican Republic and Haiti After Floods
Help is urgently needed in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
following the severe flooding in late May along the border between
the two countries on the island of Hispaniola. A week after the floods,
nearly 2,000 people were feared dead, hundreds were still missing,
and more than 15,000 were homeless.
On May 26 the five dioceses in companion relationship with
the Dominican Republic issued a request for help for the Diocese
of the Dominican Republic in ministering to those affected by the
disaster.
The May 26 message, sent by email to leaders in the dioceses
of Georgia, South Carolina, Southeast
Florida, Southwest Florida and Western Louisiana, said that
Dominican Bishop Julio Holguín has asked for financial assistance
so that his diocese can provide medicine,
food, potable water, clothes, bedding, household goods, roofing material
and other emergency supplies to the hardest-hit areas of the country.
Deacon Bob Snow, a longtime missionary
in the Dominican Republic who accompanied Bishop Holguín to Jimani,
says that the Episcopal Church in Haiti is asking the Episcopal Church
in the United States for $10,000, and hopes to raise the same amount
from Episcopal congregations in the Dominican Republic “or those church communities in the
United States who feel called to help”.
Check payable to the Diocese of Southeast
Florida and marked for Caribbean flood relief may be mailed to 525 NE 15 St., Miami, FL 33132, or you may click
here to donate online. You may also send donations for the
Diocese of the Dominican Republic to: Dominican Development
Group, P.O. Box 661, Ellenton, FL 3222, or Iglesia Episcopal Dominicana,
c/o Agape Flights DMG 13602, 7990 - 15th Street East, Sarasota, FL
34243.
You may also donate through Episcopal
Relief and Development or Food
for the Poor. |
