Haiti Mormons
LDS Church begins Haitian relief efforts
Within 24 hours of Tuesday's quake, the LDS Church joined forces with one of its major partners of late in providing humanitarian aid, Islamic Relief USA, the nation's largest Muslim relief organization. Islamic Relief USA officials announced Wednesday they were flying $1 million of aid to Haiti in cooperation with the LDS Church. Ref. Source 3
First medical team sent by Mormon Church to arrive Monday in Haiti
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Jeremy Booth, an emergency room doctor from Ogden who speaks French Creole, needed to place only two calls to make the select group. Provo orthopedic surgeon Creig MacArthur - who learned French as an LDS Church missionary a half-century ago - gladly accepted a surprise phone invitation to join. And Jeff Randle, a Salt Lake City doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation, was a natural and willing choice, given his longtime charitable efforts at the group's destination site. Ref. Source 1
LDS relief: Utah doctor speechless as Haiti clinic in ruins
"I thought I was going to cry when I saw this," said Randle after he completed his tour of the complex's 6-acre grounds in the La Vallee de Bourdon district of Port-Au-Prince. "But my heart is crying." Ref. Source 4
The First Presidency has released an statement asking for more donations:
LDS relief: Tent village surrounds Mormon meetinghouse in Haiti
The nightly devotional calms the restlessness of what amounts to a village that sprang up around the church after the Jan. 12 earthquake. Petionville was one of the hardest-hit areas in the country. About 600 tent cities or makeshift communities are sprinkled throughout the region. About 1 million Haitians, or 1 in 9, were displaced by the earthquake. Ref. Source 9
Mormon church provided $4.25M in Haiti relief
SALT LAKE CITY - In the first month following Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided an estimated $4.25 million in assistance, with plans for ongoing relief and recovery support for the ravaged Caribbean nation. Ref. Source 3
Mormon stake president in Haiti works to build hope
Ghammald Francillon, Port-au-Prince North Stake president
Meanwhile, his thoughts have focused in part on Philadelphia, where his wife and two young children have been staying with relatives since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake. The devastating, 7.0-magnitude quake left an estimated quarter of a million dead and hundreds of thousands more homeless and destitute. Ref. Source 8