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Life in a flooded tent city

I’m hopping a plane today. And, along with a small team of bloggers, I’ll spend the rest of the week in Haiti.  As we go we’re asking the question, “What is life like in a Haitian tent city now that the rainy season has arrived?” Benny Veale tells us in this blog:   At Pastor Brevyl I…
By Seth Barnes
By Seth Barnes
I’m hopping a plane today. And, along with a small team of bloggers, I’ll spend the rest of the week in Haiti.  As we go we’re asking the question, “What is life like in a Haitian tent city now that the rainy season has arrived?” Benny Veale tells us in this blog:
 

At Pastor Brevyl Innocent’s church I kept getting distracted by looking out the
door. This is what I saw across the street.

 

A week before, one of my translators made a
comment about “middle class tent communities.”

The more I
thought about the statement, the more I realized in an odd way it’s
true.

 
There are higher, middle and lower class tent communities.
 

 

Under that are tarp communities…

However, under that there are bed sheet
communities.

 
Some of these people live in parks, in street medians, on
old garbage dumps or really any where they can find. These communities
have “houses” made of sticks and bed sheets. They’ll literally rip
pieces off of their bed sheets to use as strings to tie the rest of the
bed sheet to the sticks that make up their house. They’ll dig through
the garbage to find the next best thing to build with. You would be
surprised at the ingenuity of some through this process.
 
However, the truth of their condition still
remains. The winds are coming more frequently and they are bringing the
rain spreading the diseases and bringing the
mosquitoes…

 
 
 
Those
that have found rocks to make a bed find themselves sleeping on ground
not completely sopping wet.

 

 
 
 
 
Those lucky
enough to find some cardboard, might even have somewhat of a cushion on
these rocks or broken pieces of rubble.
 

 
 
Then there are those
who just have mud or cardboard to work with and hope that they can
weather the storm.
 

 
 
 
We took these pictures this month, four months
after the earthquake. This community still hasn’t received a tarp or
help from an organization.
 
 
 
Here are the facts:

There are 3,462 people that live in
this community.
They live in 577 “shelters” …not to the tarp or tent level yet.
That means that each of the little shelters above on average houses 6 people.
The name of this
community is Ktadb and
they need your help.

Please pray for the leader of the
community and the pastor who lives nearby.

Pastor Brevyl
Innocent
is on the left

Alcindor
Jn.
Samson,
the village leader is on the right

If you are led to donate money to get
resources and food to this community, or if you would like to go
yourself to Haiti to help out, you can click here:

(To get
money to Ktadb specifically, you’ll have to write “for Ktadb”
on the memo of your check or on a note with your payment.)

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