Haiti relief 1: AMURT & AMURTEL responds to multiple hurric

Several Hurricanes hit Haiti in in September 2008. They brought heavy flash floods and mudslides, submerging large urban areas with a potentially devastating long-term impact for several hundred thousand people.

AMURT & AMURTEL's rapid response team based in the worst hit town of Gonaives currently distribute food to over a third of the city's most vulnerable. Currently that is about 15,000 people per day. Each family receive food for two weeks. We work with community leaders and small associations to determine the best way to get the food to them. We also direct a food for work program that helps to clean out 50 submerged schools which will bring the children back to a regular life routine sooner.

Visit http://www.amurt.net for more info.

Filmmaker Abraham Heisler made this video while volunteering with AMURT & AMURTEL in Haiti

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