The Seventh-day Adventist church in the region continues its efforts to bring aid and relief to the victims of the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) arrived in Haiti days after the quake with its humanitarian response.
The regional Seventh-day Adventist Community has already contributed more than US$282,000.00. Its immediate goal is half a million US Dollars. The international Adventist community is contributing millions more. This, however, is only a short term response. Various institutions within the church structure are developing more long term response measures.
For example, Andrews University—a Seventh-day Adventist institution—is preparing a term of counsellors, doctors and therapists to go to Haiti to do sustained long term work. Loma Linda University and Florida Adventist Hospital are presently coordinating doctors and medical supplies in conjunction with the Adventist Hospital in Haiti, which, fortunately, did not suffer much damage.
The Haitian Disaster came just as the Seventh-day Adventist Community here in Antigua was getting ready to launch its annual Ingathering Campaign—a programme of local solicitation where members of the public are encouraged to give towards the humanitarian programme of the church.
While the church is allocating significant resources to the disaster in Haiti and is committing money, food and building material and human resources to the rebuilding stage, it is mindful that natural and other man-made disasters do occur from time to time. Hence, in spite of the Haitian earthquake and the need to provide needed relief immediately, it is important to prepare for other future events.
Thus, members of the public are asked to give their support to the Ingathering Campaign as a means of ensuring that the long term humanitarian program of the church can continue.
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