Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association relief news update from Haiti.
It has now been a month since the devastating earthquake in this vulnerable country, where hundreds of thousands have died, one million are homeless, and many more are still in need of basic food and water, much less a means to earn a living.

Supreme Master Television reports on the situation in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital which was very near the 7.0 magnitude temblor’s epicenter.

Correspondent (F): We’re here now where it was a gas station. Everything is totally devastated. There’s no way to get in here, and as you can see, there were cars in this gas station when the earthquake occurred.

Business owner (M): There is nothing. We are trying to survive, I tell you, with hands, fingers, a shovel.
Excuse me. (Don’t worry.)

Correspondent (F): We’re here in the epicenter where everything happened. Behind me is what used to be a factory that is totally collapsed. The people in Haiti don’t have anything to take the bodies from the inside.
They don’t have the machines to do this. They don’t have electricity either.
They don’t have food,
they don’t have water,
they don’t have anything.
They don’t have a family,
they don’t have a house because all of what was the house, it looks like this right now.

Victim (F): I’ve not been well because I suffer from headaches: My aunt died, my uncle died, my father died, my child died and look now how we live! We are poor; if we were rich, they would extract the bodies for us; we do not have money. I sleep in the streets. I do not have a roof to sleep, I make up tarps and also, from time to time I go fetch an item from under the house so that I can sleep.

Correspondent (F): Reporting from Haiti for Supreme Master Television.

VOICE: Sharing the Haitian people’s grief and struggles, Supreme Master Ching Hai responded with donations totaling US$60,000 to date. She has urged the medical professionals of our Association to go and attend to the injured patients’ surgical and other needs. Combined funds that have also been contributed by our Association members worldwide now total more than US$271,000 and could acquire US$9.7 million in materials in the United States, based on Haiti’s cost of living.

With most covering their own travel expenses, more of our Association members have arrived from across the globe bringing medical, nursing, translation and other skills.

While continuing to provide patient care and serve hot vegan meals for everyone at the major hospital in Carrefour, the relief team has also expanded food provision to other areas where some of the most afflicted victims were staying.

Per Supreme Master Ching Hai’s request for updates, the following report is from our Association's relief team in Haiti.


VOICE: We thank Supreme Master Ching Hai for allowing us to share this information as well as our Association’s Foreign Group providing this report.

Our appreciation goes to the international governments, groups and individuals for your concerted efforts to assist the quake-stricken people.

We are grateful also for Supreme Master Ching Hai’s concerned assistance, and for the dedication of our Association’s relief team. May these challenging times for the Haitian people soon pass to become safe and stable, as such traumatic events are minimized through our kinder regard toward all life
and the Earth.