Breaking Good News from Haiti

This hasn’t even reached the news media yet, but I just got a phone call that 78 Haitian children from the God’s Littlest Angels orphanage are being prepared to board a United States Air Force military transport for Miami, Florida where they will be met by their adoptive families.

Dixie Bickel, co-founder of the GLA orphanage, will accompany them and then head right back to Port-au-Prince to process 12 more ophaned children.

MEDICAL NEED UPDATE: There is, according to Dixie, an urgent need for Tetanus vaccine for the incoming children.

Even before Tuesday’s deadly magnitude-7.0 earthquake, Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries, was awash in orphans, with 380,000 children living in orphanages or group homes, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported on its Web site. This was the result of repeated natural disasters like hurricanes in addition to crushing poverty unlike any other country in the hemisphere.

The number of ophaned children now in immediate need is anticipated by some agencies to grow to nearly one million.

According to GLA orphanage officials the immediate need is for Tetanus shots, and they simply don’t have the vaccine.

Since Tetanus vaccine must be kept cold during shipment, a solid plan for transport is crucial.

The call is going out from Maven&meddler to anybody with contacts in the pharmaceutical industry for donations of Tetanus vaccine in packets of 100 or 1,000, to contact me or GLA directly to arrange for pickup and transportation to Haiti.

This is a critical need.

Thanks.

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