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Posted: 11:12 PM Jan 28, 2010
Rockford Man Calls From Native Haiti
Local man calls in first-hand report of Port au Prince, Haiti.
Reporter: Chip BrewsterEmail Address: Chip.Brewster@wifr.com |
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Food and medical supplies are continuing to be shipped to Haiti but one local Haitian who's there right now says they're not getting distributed.
A Haitian man recently made his way back to Port au Prince from Rockford, and he's doing all he can to help out the dying city. We spoke with James Casimir today and he says everyone in the Haitian capital is struggling to stay alive. He estimates that more than half of the homes in and around the city have completely collapsed, and that another 25% are inhabitable.
"We got all these people in the streets, sleeping in the streets. They don't have, they don't have nothing to sleep with. I know we have a lot of help coming, but it looks like they don't find no help. The only thing I sometimes... these people help them, these people give them some water sometimes, but people hungry, and we still have a lot of dead bodies inside the house. And there is smell everywhere you drive and that's the way it is."
James asked that we let his family know that he's ok, and that he'd like them to pray for him and for Haiti.
Supplies are getting to Haiti. Rockford's Morning Star Baptist Church sent a shipment through O'Hare just tonight.
The United Nations has 12 food distribution points in Port au Prince and they're planning to add three more points tomorrow.
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