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Red Cross to provide shelter for 1,500 Haitians
Salzburg Red Cross chief Anton Holzer said on Saturday his organisation would build a "Salzburg settlement" in earthquake-devastated Haiti providing shelter for 1,500 people.
Holzer said the settlement near Leogane would cost 300,000 Euros and be built by Haitians themselves, who would be paid for their work. He appealed for public contributions.
He added that the settlement, to be build of wood, would provide accommodation for up to five people in each house and be ready in four to six weeks. The building material had already been contracted in the USA and would be shipped to Haiti, he said.
Holzer noted that the Red Cross was engaged in the largest assistance operation in its history in Haiti, where people were living in sub-human conditions.
Red Cross Herbert Wieser added: "I have already seen a lot, but the situation there is indescribable." He has just returned from a week in earthquake-stricken Haiti.
He said relief efforts had been concentrating on getting food and water to the needy but shelter was becoming an urgent need as the rainy season fast approached. "People do not want to return to their damaged accommodations," he noted.
Children, he said, had been particularly affected as many had lost both parents.
Lower Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) Governor Erwin Pröll announced last week that the province would contribute 500,000 Euros to Haitian earthquake relief.
He said Hilfswerk Austria International and health-care firm Vamed would share 400,000 Euros for construction of a prefabricated, mobile out-patient clinic in Haiti and Catholic charity Caritas and the Austrian Red Cross would receive 25,000 Euros apiece.
Pröll added that the contribution was appropriate given the size of the province and the provincial government would monitor how the money was spent.
The Red Cross, Caritas, CARE charity, Licht für die Welt, the Agriculture Chamber and the Workers’ Samaritan Federation have set up accounts for donations to help Haiti earthquake victims, which can be made to:
CARE: PSK 1.236.000 (BLZ 60.000) – password: "Haiti";
Caritas: PSK 7.700 004, (BLZ 60.000) – password: "Erdbeben Haiti",
Austrian Red Cross (Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz): PSK: 2.345.000 (BLZ 60.000) - password: "Erdbeben Haiti";
Licht für die Welt: PSK 92.011.650 (BLZ 60.000) - password: "Haiti-Aufbauhilfe";
Agriculture Chamber: PSK account 90.311.400 (BLZ 60.000).
Workers’ Samaritan Federation: PSK 00001-834-000 (BLZ 60000) - password: "Erdbebenhilfe Haiti."
The Red Cross’s new account for donations for the Salzburg settlement described above is:
Red Cross: PSK: 2.460.632 (BLZ 20.404) – password: "Erdbeben Haiti."
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Evonnne Perfect wrote on 18. 03. 2010 from about "Red Cross to provide shel..."
The aid effort is being organized and rationed is being handled in ways that are not the most effective possible ways. The groups in Haiti right now are controlled by Christians. They are operating under ideas that are incorrect. They are withholding aid and not working with the Vodouin leaders who are organized. In fact their fears are so much in control that they are denying food to those that follow Vodou and as a result people are dying based upon religion. I think if the Christians understood the truth in Vodou and not Hollywood's image, they would make different choices. I will explain a bit why the persecution is happening and briefly try to clear up some of the myths surrounding Vodou. Hollywood has promoted a faith that is so far form the real religion that the two are not at all similar. The Aid organizations are reacting to that image. The humfo or church group is the center of life and it operates also as a farm. On the farm, the people grow their own food and raise their own animals. When food supplies run low or at times when extra food is needed. Vodouins will hold a ceremony. It is like a Madri Gras as one noted author said on Sally Jessie Rapheal show some years ago. We give our animals a great meal, use perfumes on them and if they step forward use them in the ceremony.You see, we believe we are all leaves on the same tree as you take care of one leaf the whole tree does better. Animals as well as humans have a spirit and are a leaf .We give to that animal the choice, and if it chooses we kill them very quickly and humanely. We pray and give thanks to god for our blessings and to the animal for becoming our food. Christians have a similar practice. They raise their animals on a farm where they are often mistreated, kill they at times les than humanely and pick them up at a butcher. Christians often then pray over their meal as we do. In Haiti, they do not have grocery stores like we do in the west. The church farm is a natural evolution and it insures care and respect given to all. We believe in one god.We believe in Jesus ,Mary and Joseph, the holy trinity and obviously what we call Good God. Vodouins hold that you must never hold a grudge nor should you act out of emotion. It is ok to feel it but not react out of it. That one can be hard especially when you get cut off in traffic or other silly things in our daily life. A priest must help all that come to him, no matter what. If one has no home or income ,the humfo becomes a source of hope and a chance for a new start. I read recently, one journalist say Vodou was actually more like Buddhism.We strive for purity of heart. Only those that have achieved self mastery over their own faults as well as joy can hope to reach up and touch the hand of a saint or angel. If you are cruel, unjust or still confined by your own faults then the angels will not work through you. It is through this interaction that Hollywood has promoted the image of possession. In truth it is very hard to strive to that level and earn the time with these divine beings. You cannot be cruel or hurtful or act selfishly and expect any angel to go near you as they wont. It must be earned. It is my hope they will all learn to work together for the betterment of all. Thank you
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