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We would like to share with our members a tribute bestowed on our organization. On April 19, 2010, the United States Ambassador to Haiti, Kenneth Merten, met with the H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 teams working in Haiti and was given a tour of several ongoing projects. He presented the members of H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 with a proclamation thanking us for all that we have accomplished in helping the people in that country after the tragic earthquake of January 12, 2010.

Among our many achievements in Haiti are four H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 initiatives that have been successfully completed.

1. H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 immediately deployed to Haiti to participate in the Rescue and Recovery after the devastating earthquake in January that saw over 330, 000 people killed.

2. H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 members went back to Haiti to the Jesuit Novitiate and completed a project that saw the Novitiate’s damaged water supply structure demolished and a new system installed. They also stabilized several buildings that were uninhabitable and made them once again livable. Providing suitable housing for staff and students allows the Jesuits to continue their mission of training the native Haitian novitiates who will then go out into the various Haitian communities.

3. At the request of the Love-A-Child Orphanage, H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 sent a team that built over one hundred desks and benches and chalkboards for the use in their on-site school so that they could resume the education of the people living there. Adjacent to the orphanage, they also constructed X-ray tables and hospital beds at the temporary hospital facility run by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 volunteers built a drainage system to divert the runoff in the area that surrounds the hundreds of tents that are used as makeshift hospital rooms. With the onset of the rainy season and the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, this project was needed to avoid potential further destruction to an already decimated people.

4. H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 teams incorporated local workers whenever possible and taught them the needed skills to complete these projects. These Haitians can now take the newly acquired knowledge and teach others. This is in keeping with the mission statement of H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 that by sharing our knowledge and experience with those we help, they in turn will continue to help others.

The Staff at H.E.A.R.T. 9/11

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