HOW YOU CAN HELP:

  1. The most important thing that you can do is to pray for the school, the students, the nation of Haiti and us.
  2. Donate to the Haiti Relief fund at Rockwell Falls or the school (see main page for details)
  3. Donate medical supplies:     IV fluids (saline and dextrose), topical and regular antibiotics, sterile gauze, peroxide, Betadine, Saline solution, needles and syringes, surgical gloves. Tents, sheets, blankets and tarps are also needed. Contact us for information
  4. You can donate any prosthetic devices including crutches, wheel chairs, canes, artificial limbs to Physicians for Peace… www.physiciansforpeace.org/haiti.html
  5. We encourage you to study and learn about Haiti.
  6. After all this slows down, consider joining us on a mission trip to Haiti. Please contact us for information.
  7. We hope to provide the students with book bags (about 85 bags approximately 1 foot by 1 foot ... see picture) Please contact us for details.
  8. Help us develop contacts to make a presentation about Haiti and the school at your church, Sunday School, or organization
  9. We hope to provide Creole bibles to those students finishing the fourth year. Presently these cost us about $27 each. These may be the only books that some of them will ever own



KITS YOU CAN MAKE

School Bags for Labastille


Jo Ellen and a group of women gathered at the Presbyterian Church in Lake Luzerne one day to make book bags for the kids at the school.  They had a great time and ended up completing 15 and have another 15 or so in process.  The bags look like this:

Bag

Bag

If  you or your group would like to make some bags, here are the instructions: The raw material is 14 inches wide by 30 inches long.

Questions: Call
518-696-3990

Church World Service Kits

Note: While cloth diapers are not as commonly used in the United States, they are a necessary part of the layette. 12-packs of cloth diapers can be purchased at Target and many Sears stores or may be purchased online at one of the following sites:

Cotton Babies
ClothDiaper.com
BabyBestBuy
Thanks Mama

Baby Kit

6 — cloth diapers*
2 — T-shirts or undershirts (no onesies)
2 — washcloths
2 — gowns or sleepers
2 — diaper pins
1 — sweater or sweatshirt
2 — receiving blankets (one can be a
hand-knitted or crocheted baby blanket)

All items should be new and under 12 months in size. Wrap items inside one of the receiving blankets and secure with both diaper pins. Patterns are available for many of the components on the CWS web site.

Amy Potter

Photo: Amy Porter, CWS

Clean-up Bucket

Photo: Roanna Wilson

Clean-up Bucket

1 — 5-gallon bucket with resealable lid*
5 — scouring pads
7 — sponges, assorted sizes
1 — scrub brush
1 — pkg. cleaning towels (18 reusable, like Easy Wipes®)
1 — box dry laundry detergent, 50-78 oz.
1 — liquid concentrated household cleaner (like Lysol®), 12 oz.
1 — bottle liquid disinfectant dish soap (like Dawn®), 24-28 oz.
1 — 1 pkg. clothespins, 48-50
Clothesline, two 50 ft. or one 100 ft.
5 — dust masks
2 pair — latex gloves (like Playtex®)
1 pair — work gloves
1 — 24 to 28 count roll heavy-duty trash bags (30-45 gallon, remove from carton)
1 — bottle insect repellant (pump, drops or lotion; not aerosol), 6-9 oz.

Please purchase all liquids in plastic bottles. Send only new, unopened materials. Put all items in the plastic bucket, packed securely to avoid damage during shipment, and seal lid with packing tape. If shipping, place each Bucket in a separate box.

*Some local fast-food restaurants are willing to donate pickle buckets (or other 5-gallon buckets with re-sealable lids) or offer them for a small fee. These can be washed out and used for the clean-up buckets.

School Kit

Emily Will, MCC/ACT

School Kit

1 — pair of blunt scissors (rounded tip)
3 — 70-count spiral notebooks or tape-bound pads of 8" x 10 1/2" ruled paper or pads with 200-210 sheets of ruled paper. Do not include filler paper.
1 — 30-centimeter ruler (12")
1 — hand-held pencil sharpener
6 — new pencils with erasers
1 — large eraser
1 — box of 24 crayons
1 — cloth bag, 12" x 14" to 14" x 16" finished size cotton cloth bag with cloth handles; pattern available

Pack all items in the cloth bag.

Hygiene Kit

Christy Pritchett, CWS

Hygiene Kit

1 — hand towel (approximately 16" x 28", no fingertip or bath towels)
1 — washcloth
1 — wide-tooth comb
1 — nail clipper (no metal files or emery boards)
1 — bar of soap (bath size in wrapper)
1 — toothbrush (in original packaging)
6 — Band-Aids® or other adhesive bandage strips

Please do not add toothpaste to the Hygiene Kit. Toothpaste which has an extended expiration date will be added to Hygiene Kit shipments just prior to shipment. Seal all items in a one-gallon plastic bag with a zipper closure.

Packing and Sending "Gift of the Heart" Kits

Complete Kits should be packed in boxes with only one type of Kit in each box. However, if you are shipping a small number of different kinds of Kits, they can be combined in one box.
Clearly mark the outside of the box with the contents.
Include the name and address of the church, group, or individual sending the kits at the top before sealing the box.
Secure the boxes with packing tape.

Ship all Kits prepaid to one of the following:

Ferncliff Disaster Assistance Center
1720 Ferncliff Road
Little Rock, AR 72223
(501) 821-3063 or (866) 732-6121

OR

Church World Service
Brethren Service Center Annex
601 Main Street
New Windsor, MD 21776-0188
(410) 635-8794

Please note:

Some groups prefer to take special offerings to support a project. The value for each type of kit is given below if you or your group would like to give a financial gift to support the purchase of kit contents.

Health Kit

$10.00

Give now!

School Kit

$15.00

 

Baby Kit

$39.00

Give

Clean-up Bucket

$56.00

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