It’s a story we know all too well. Just before 5:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday the 12th of January this year a major earthquake hit just outside Port-au-Prince, the capital of the impoverished nation of Haiti. Within the first fortnight after that event, at least 52 major aftershocks had been recorded.
An estimated three million people have affected by the quake. The Haitian Government reports that between 217,000 and 230,000 people have been identified as dead, an estimated 300,000 injured, and an estimated 1,000,000 homeless.
While we heard story after story about the tragedy in the weeks immediately following the earthquake, the plight of the Haitian people is already beginning to fade from our TV screens and newspapers.
Compassion International has been working in Haiti for over forty years so they were one of the first aid agencies to begin helping the people of the affected area. They’re committed to the people of Haiti and they’ll continue to help them in the years and even decades that it will take to return life to what we might consider normal.
To find out what’s been happening and continues to happen in Haiti I spoke to DJ Konz of Compassion Australia during my morning programme on 98.5 Sonshine FM this morning.
You can hear our conversation by clicking the play button on the audio player at the bottom of this post.
There is still so very much to do so please donate generously to Compassion to help those in Haiti. Click here to give through Compassion International. If you’re in Australia, click here to donate through Compassion Australia.
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