January archive

Urgent Update!!

January 19, 2010

Tuesday, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastated the Port-au-Prince area where most of the schools and orphanages are located. One of our project officers in Haiti just contacted our home office and said, “It looks like Dante’s Inferno. There are dead bodies everywhere. It’s hell on earth.”

Our schools and orphanages are in shambles. The kids were living on the edge of a cliff. Now, the cliff has crumbled. Our many pastors, teachers, and health care providers are working directly with the kids and families in Haiti’s most impoverished sectors. We believe the key to efficient and effective assistance in Haiti is to get the resources directly to those Haitians we have a relationship with, who are longtime trusted friends, and who work with the poorest of the poor.

If you would like to help, our short term focus will be food, water and medical supplies. Long term, we will need to rebuild the schools, orphanages and housing for the kids and their families. We have partners on the ground ready to distribute food and get to work rebuilding. Any contribution will be put to use with great efficiency. - Joe White

Dear Friends

January 1, 2010

Imagine a place where thousands of children are dying each day, where voodoo has become the major religion, where mothers and fathers are unable to provide for their families and the daily amenities of food, running water, toilets and medicine are almost nonexistent. Imagine no more, that is Haiti. If we want these children to survive, we must educate them. We must give them the ability to break free from the chains of abject poverty and have a say in the future of their country.

I cannot tell you how much pain I feel for these children. They are not only starving for food, but starving for Christ. Christ spoke of that when He said in Matthew 25:40, "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." I can promise you that what we are doing in Haiti is making a difference. But there is much more that can be done. Join with me as we reach out to these kids and show them the love of Christ!

Joe White, President Kanakuk Kamps