<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Début du message réexpédié :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>De : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Anglican Communion News Service <<a href="mailto:acnslist@anglicancommunion.org">acnslist@anglicancommunion.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">22 janvier 2010 13:21:52 HNEC<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>À : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:bppwhalon@aol.com">bppwhalon@aol.com</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Objet : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>ACNS4679 Aftershock rocks Haiti: Diocese expands its recovery role</b><br></span></div><br><div>Aftershock rocks Haiti: Diocese expands its recovery role<br>Posted On : January 22, 2010 11:19 AM | Posted By : Webmaster<br>ACNS: <a href="http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2010/1/22/ACNS4679">http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2010/1/22/ACNS4679</a><br>Related Categories: USA <br><br>As a major aftershock rocked the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and<br>Léogâne, more news emerged Jan. 20 about the growing role of the<br>Episcopal Diocese of Haiti in the country's short-term relief efforts<br>and long-term recovery. <br><br>The news included reports of babies being born and the loss of more<br>people served by the diocese.<br><br>A magnitude 5.9 aftershock struck just after 6 a.m. local time about 35<br>miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological<br>Survey, which had earlier in the day calculated the aftershock at 6.1 on<br>the Richter scale. It was one of 28 temblors the USGS recorded up until<br>4:43 EST Jan. 20. A magnitude 6.0 quake is 10 times less in magnitude<br>than a magnitude 7.0, such as the one that devastated Port-au-Prince and<br>the surrounding area eight days ago.<br><br>The Haiti Nursing Foundation reported on its website Jan. 20 that three<br>students from the diocese's school of nursing in Léogâne died in their<br>homes during the Jan. 12 quake that also destroyed 80 - 90 percent of<br>the buildings in the main part of town. <br><br>That report came along with the news that six babies had been born at<br>the makeshift hospital that has been operating at the school's buildings<br>since just after the earthquake.<br><br>The foundation reported that 27 members of a relief team from Japan,<br>including four doctors and seven nurses, are now working at the school<br>and sleeping in one of the dormitories. Members of Doctors Without<br>Borders have also been treating people at the school and members of the<br>United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti have fixed the school's<br>generator and are due to work on its water pump, nursing school dean<br>Hilda Alcindor said on the foundation's website.<br><br>She has said that she, the nursing students and the incoming medical<br>personnel have treated at least 5,000 people since the quake. A tent<br>city has sprung up in the open fields around the school. The school's<br>foundation also reported that the nursing students have set up 10<br>first-aid stations around Léogâne.<br><br>In addition, the foundation said, Chip Lambert, a doctor from the<br>Medical Benevolence Foundation had arrived Jan. 19 with a stock of<br>supplies.<br><br>The Medical Benevolence Foundation was already a partner with the<br>nursing school as well as the diocese's Hôpital Ste. Croix in Léogâne, a<br>clinic on LaGonava Island, and St. Vincent School for Handicapped<br>Children in Port-au-Prince.<br><br>According to confirmed reports, included on CNN's iReport here, at least<br>six children and staff, and possibly as many as 10, were killed when one<br>of the school's buildings collapsed. Since then, the school has been<br>robbed of materials, St.Vincent's director, the Rev. Léon Sadoni said in<br>the CNN iReport and elsewhere.<br><br>About 130 St. Vincent students are living at a survivor camp of about<br>3,000 that diocesan Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin, who was made homeless by<br>the quake, established near College Ste. Pierre in downtown<br>Port-au-Prince. Plans are being made to transfer the St. Vincent<br>students to other living quarters.<br><br>Ste. Pierre, a diocesan primary school, was destroyed in the quake, as<br>were at least three other of the diocese's 254 schools, ranging from<br>pre-schools to a university and a seminary. Another of the destroyed<br>schools is the Holy Trinity complex of primary, music and trade schools<br>adjacent to the demolished diocesan Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy<br>Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince. More than 100 of the diocese's<br>churches have been damaged or destroyed, Duracin has said.<br><br>The Rev. Canon Oge Beauvoir, the dean of the diocese's seminary and one<br>of four Episcopal Church missionaries assigned to Haiti, has been<br>assisting Duracin at the camp. He is working with the Jacksonville,<br>Florida-based nonprofit FreshMinistries and its international arm, Be<br>The Change International to help coordinate the Haiti portion of an<br>effort to bring in doctors, medical technicians, translators and<br>prescription medications.<br><br>BTCI issued a news release Jan. 19 that said the U. S. Department of<br>Health and Human Services had asked it to help in the relief<br>coordination. The Rev. Dr. Robert V. Lee, chair of FreshMinistries and<br>BTCI, has long-standing relationships with the Episcopal Church in Haiti<br>and close ties with the Haitian government, according to the news<br>release. <br><br>Be The Change Haiti will coordinate those efforts on the ground, the<br>release said. Beauvoir, who also heads Be The Change Haiti, has thus far<br>found nearly 40 Haitian physicians and 37 translators, the organization<br>said. Beauvoir, who escaped harm during the earthquake, has offered the<br>diocese's school buildings for use in administering aid and coordinating<br>further relief efforts.<br><br>Trinity Wall Street is also participating in the effort to gather<br>personnel for the effort. Lee, BTCI's chair, asked his friend and<br>Trinity rector the Rev. James Cooper for help in locating French and<br>Creole speakers, particularly those with medical backgrounds, who would<br>be willing to help in Haiti. Trinity made the need known and about 50<br>people responded, according to Donna Presnell, Trinity assistant manager<br>for public relations and promotion. She said the parish is awaiting<br>further word from Lee and Be The Change.<br><br>Article from ENS by By Mary Frances Schjonberg, January 20, 2010<br><br>___________________________________________________________________<br>ACNSlist, published by Anglican Communion News Service, London, is<br>distributed to more than 8,000 journalists and other readers around<br>the world.<br><br>For subscription INFORMATION please go to:<br><a href="http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/help/acnslist.cfm">http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/help/acnslist.cfm</a><br><br>To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your address, please click here:<br>http://mh.epicom.org/scripts/c.php?L=acns&E=bppwhalon@aol.com<br><br>For daily updates on local, national and communion-wide news stories<br>please visit the ACNS Digest page:<br>http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/digest/index.cfm<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>=