We just received an urgent plea from our friends at Feed the Hungry. They were contacted by HaitiChildren (Mercy and Sharing) in Haiti, when this article from the Associated Press came out about “prisoners in Haiti starving to death with malnutrition.”
We were told before of the horrible conditions inside the prison system, but this one “made me sick” to think that so many prisoners actually “starved to death.” Feed the Hungry has food coming, but it takes a while to get to Haiti. So they contacted us for immediate help. We are giving them food today and we are here to help for whatever is needed in the future. Jesus said, “Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.“ Matthew 25:36 — Thank you again, partners! God bless you, Bobby and Sherry –
ASPEN NON-PROFIT COMES TO AID OF 4,200 STARVING DETAINEES AT HAITI’S NATIONAL PENITENTIARY AND INITIATES JUVENILE PRISON MINISTRY BY ITS CHILD RESIDENTS IN TIME FOR EASTER SUNDAY!
Aspen, Colorado, – APRIL 12, 2017, Local residents and founders of HaitiChildren (formerly “Mercy & Sharing”) confirmed it has successfully brought partners together from US, Canada and Haitian governments to bring food to the Haitian National Penitentiary where over 4,200 detainees are being held. After hearing about the crisis Susie Krabacher, Co-Founder and CEO of HaitiChildren mobilized over 600 children and village residents to pray for food and free shipping for the penitentiary. Prayer was answered and this Easter Sunday detainees will be served a meal donated from partners listed below.
In addition, a dozen of Susie’s teenage children (abandoned children adopted by Susie and her husband Joe Krabacher) will initiate a juvenile prison ministry this Easter weekend.
The Associated Press article (link below) summarizes the situation well with an extremely alarming quote regarding the crisis: “This is the worst rate of preventable deaths that I have encountered anywhere in the world,” said Dr. John May, a Florida physician who co-founded the nonprofit group Health Through Walls to improve health conditions in the Caribbean and several African nations.
HaitiChildren partnered with Feed The Hungry; Love A Child https://loveachild.com; the Commissioner of Prisons, Jean Gardy Muscadin; the Warden of the National Penitentiary, Romage Marlon Wenendiny; the Canadian Embassy in Haiti http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/haiti/index.aspx?lang=eng under the leadership of Ambassador Paula Caldwell St. Onge; USAID; special advisors to the National Penitentiary; and a team of volunteers in Haiti led by Max and Christine Antoine to manage inventory and food deliveries to the National Penitentiary.
Feed the Hungry sourced the first delivery of food in Haiti in partnership with Love A Child and has two 40-foot containers en route to Port-au-Prince now. The first emergency delivery of food consists of roughly 23,000 meals. Additionally, Feed the Hungry has also committed to provide containers of food through the end of this year in the hopes the issue can be resolved by the appropriate parties in Haiti by that time.
Commenting on this project, Susie Krabacher states, “While this project is not core to HaitiChildren’s programming in Haiti, we could not stand back and let more tragedy happen. I inspected the National Penitentiary personally and was driven to help. I am so extremely grateful to each and every organization and person involved in delivering desperately needed food to these detainees.”
Feed the Hungry CEO, Stefan Radelich, commented, “Feed the Hungry is honored to partner with HaitiChildren and all the other co-collaborators to stem the misery of hunger at the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince.”
Commissioner of Prisons, Jean Gardy Muscadin commented, “The National Penitentiary is extremely grateful to HaitiChildren, Feed The Hungry, Love A Child, Canada’s Embassy, USAID and the Haitian volunteer team that has worked very hard to arrange delivery of desperately needed food supplies. We are working to solve this issue, but extend our sincere thanks to the intervention of these foreign aid groups to help address this unfortunate situation so quickly.”