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Mercy Outreach Ministry International, Inc. is requesting donations to aid in the relief effort in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and surrounding areas.

MOM has been working in Haiti for over 20 years and have direct contact with Haitians.  We work directly with Haitian pastors and workers who are able to get relief directly to those affected by the earthquake..

We are a 501(c)3 humanitarian organization, and your donations are deductible per IRS regulations.

Due to the enormity and complexity of rescue operations, please do not attempt to send water, food, clothing, etc. at this time.  There must be collaborative and cooperative efforts for shipping, receiving and distributing aid supplies.  Those mechanisms have not been put in place yet.

We will post information on this page as we receive information from the Haitian Embassy here in Washington, DC.  However, monetary donations may be made by clicking on the PayPal Donate Button below:

MOM Intl. Inc      11705 Bishop's Content   Mitchellville, MD  20721

If you have any problems with any of the links, please call 301-390-0024 for assistance.  We thank you for caring and sharing.  

We desperately need your help to get tents and sleeping bags to Haiti.  The rainy season is approaching and many, many people are without shelter and are sleeping in the open on the ground. 

This is true in the provinces as well.  Petitie Riviere De Nippes and Anse-a-veau were impacted.  A desperate call was received on the morning of Jan. 27, 2010 pleading for tents, medicine and money to purchase more food.  Since then we have been feeding over 1500 people daily by cooking on our wonderful solar ovens at the bakery. The people are eating corn, rice and beans with bread.

We can send money by Moneygram and they are in need of additional money to purchase more food.  Please help us to help them.

UPDATES    Feb 8. 2010

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1. We desperately need clean water for the masses that pass through the village every day and the 1500 who are being fed twice daily!  We need clean drinking water.  The family-size Bio-Sand filter cannot produce the volume that is needed for this large crowd.  So, again, MOM is stretching out on faith and  is ordering the Harvester Solar Water Purification System For the Solar Bakery and Refugee Camp in Petite Riviere de Nippes, Haiti.  This system will purify water from wells, ponds, streams or rain water.  It is mobile and will clean water anywhere at anytime!  It has the capacity to clean a maximum of 400 gallons of water per day with 1200 gallons being the ideal level to keep water in reserve in the absence of solar exposure due to rain.  If required, it can clean a maximum of 3300 gals per day!

Again, this is an example of how your dollars are being used to bring help directly to Haitians who are far removed from international aid services, etc.  The quotation of the SolarOne is attached. Please note that the shipping from the company to Maryland is not included.

It takes six weeks to build the unit, and we will be taking it down to Haiti in March on the Spring-Break Earthbag Housing Collaborative with Maryland U and Howard U schools of engineering and architecture! This will give us the opportunity to teach Haitians how to use the system so that as funds are obtained to purchase them, they will already know how to set it up and to maintain it.  There are no electrical requirements and no chemical additives to add to the water. (Click on the links to see photo and quotation)
I must order this unit now in order to take it with us in March!  Please, please tell your friends, families...everyone you know about MOM and its Haitian Earthquake Relief.  Please let them know that we have been bringing help to the remote areas of Haiti since 1987 in the form of self-help projects, such as our Clean Water project in which 12 Haitians were trained to build BioSand filters for clean water for families; our Solar Bakery which is Haiti’s first successful  commercial Solar Bakery and is now preparing food twice  a day to feed 1500 Haitians who were displaced by the earthquake!  That’s 3,000 meals a day cooking with the sun and with back-up propane systems on the solar ovens for night time or rainy days!

2.  MOM has purchased 6 family-size Global Sun Ovens from the Haitian owned
microenterprise plant in Lambert, Haiti.  This little plant had to close for lack of business previously.  This assembly plant assembles the family-size Global Sun Oven that cooks with solar energy and is being used all over the world in developing and developed countries because of it’s ease in use, it is environmentally safe and friendly, and the food is absolutely delicious. MOM purchased one back in 1994 and it is still cooking rice and beans in Haiti.  It can be seen on the websites!  These ovens will be distributed to pastors whose churches are being used as feeding centers to help minimize the cost of charcoal and its damaging fumes and its deforestation of Haiti! Again, an example of MOM’s determination to forge ahead with appropriate technology in Haiti as it has being doing since 1994. 

3.  MOM is in collaboration with Howard University and Maryland University Schools of Engineering and Architecture to build emergency shelters in Haiti during Spring Break.  These housing units will be made of earthbags, the new appropriate technology that puts safe, dry housing into the reach of thousands. Two teams will train Haitians how to build these units. One team will be based in the Central Plateau and the second team will be based just outside of Port-au-Prince (Source Matelus) on a 67-acre land that Dr. Olivier had started building when the quake struck!  The building concept consists of sandbag (earthbag) walls filled with sand or soil from the site, and tarps for roofing.  These emergency shelters would only be slightly more expensive than tarps by themselves, but provide superior protection against wind, rain, heat, cold, show, bullets, fire, flooding hurricanes and noise. See attachment.

4.  RAFFLE!!!  MOM is raising money via a raffle of a week’s-vacation in Hawaii with tickets selling for only $35.00 ea.  Thanks to this generous donation by Mr. & Mrs.James Davis (James and Patricia), the proceeds have been earmarked to build a church/school in Arnaud.  Presently, there is no school and the church is a big thatched hut!  They have been waiting since 1994 for a school and church, and I promised them BEFORE the quake that this would be a priority. And, MOM is keeping its promise!  You can view their walls of sheets and blankets on the website!  See Raffle Page

Someone is going to win....and it could be you.  The drawing is on June 26, 2010 and one need not be present to win.  Tickets can be brought through PayPal.  Please, spread the word.  They have been waiting for almost 15 years!!!

5.  MOM is desperately trying to raise enough money to purchase strong tarps.  With the rainy season coming, it will become open sewers in large encampments given the absence of sanitary waste systems.  The tarps will be used for roofing on the emergency units, too.

6.  MOM is introducing the waterless composting toilet to protect the water tables/ground water. There are no toilets in most villages!  The water contamination and subsequent illnesses are astronomical, and cause untold numbers of deaths each year.  For the cost of a 5-gal bucket with a top, a plastic toilet seat and a few feet of wood to make a form to place on the bucket, wire/screening to made a composting bin, and biomass material such as straw, rice husks and other organic material to sprinkle over the waste, we are well on our way to composting human waste that becomes a source of fertilizer in two years! See attachment and http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/sawdustoilet.html for great photos of these wonderful toilets.

7. The Biosand Filter Project needs a startup figure of several thousand dollars to purchase materials to build enough BioSand filters for family use by the new populace that was displaced by the quake. Pastor Romane is gathering the technicians who were trained in preparation for the startup soon. Haitian men and women will be taught how to make these filters as well as how to practice and teach their communities Water Safety and Sanitation. These filters will be used way up in the remotes areas and down into the valleys and vales. Click here for more information about the filter..

Ask them to visit www.haitipoverty.com, www..fishersworld.com/mom.htm  and
www.mercyoutreachministry.org to read about all of the things that we have been doing in Haiti  for over two decades....working directly with the poorest of the poor!  We need financial support to continue to provide the very basic life-supporting projects that’s so badly needed in Haiti as the vast migration of those displaced by the earthquake return to the countryside to try to escape the ravages and devastation of the earthquake that has shattered their lives.  They can donate through   PayPal on any of the three websites .

While we have asked for help with food, medicine, first-aid supplies, etc. from the UN, we have not yet received aid.  We have been contacted and the process of registration in the "food cluster" is beginning.  Please pray that our request for help will be expedited swiftly a our funds are meager as we strive to purchase rice, beans, corn and other foodstuffs in Haiti to feed the people.  Our PayPal donations have not quite reached $4,000 to date.  While we are disappointed, we are hopeful that more of you will continue to spread the word about MOM so that we can meet our mission goals.

Remember, we do not have paid staff.  All of us work as volunteers here in the states.  But, our Haitian works must be paid in order to help us to help them.  They need money for food, transportation, etc.  They need employment. This is why it is so important that our projects must help them to help themselves so that they can build upon their training, skills, etc. to become economically independent and to re-build their lives.

Thank you for standing with us, and supporting MOM.  Your thank you notes and receipts are being prepared.  Donations made to Haiti in from January 11 to March 1, 2010 for earthquake relief may be claimed on your 2009 taxes. Rev. Carolyn Byars has set up ACCESS so that we can properly keep account of our supporters/donations and contact information..  Thanks to volunteers such as Andre Fraser (webmaster - www.Haitipoverty.com)  Lynne Marshall, Patricia Davis, Marie Decembre (Creole translation services), Rev. Monique Smith (French translation services) Terri Johnson (www.mercyoutreachministry.org), Paul Pumphrey of Brothers and Sisters International and others who are working to assist MOM during this extremely stressful time.