Haiti Relief in Nyack
As we all grieve and look for ways to help our Haitian brothers and sisters, we are grateful to those who have been leading the way-Konbit Neg Lekay among others in Rockland County. We compiled this list with help from Konbit Neg Lekay in Spring Valley and Nyack Public Schools along with updates from other organizations. We appreciate them and all our community partners for coming together and supporting our Haitian community in Rockland and Haiti. The generosity of the community we call home is always so moving.
Many of the families and young people we serve are still trying to findinformation about their families. Please continue to remember them in your thoughts and prayers.
Please let me know of any other efforts you are aware of so we can spread the word and feel free to e-mail this to anyone you think would be interested. These are meant to be resources and not endorsements of any groups or program.
There are plans in the works for a Nyack fundraiser for Haiti-anyone interested in helping with those efforts please e-mail me at kim.cross@nyackcenter.org.
Thank you for your help and generosity,
Kim
Kim
Please e-mail us with any new resources or information.
Finkelstein library has been updating a very comprehensive list of services and resources to their website.
Also, Konbit Neg Lakay (see information about this organization below) is asking all organizations who are providing information/services re: Haiti Relief to send the info to them so they can have compile everything. Send to www.rocklandhaitirelief.org. Konbit needs community volunteers to help sort and box all the donations that they are receiving. Call Konbit during the week or show up on weekends at 12Noon. FREE WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN, "Kids Coping with Natural Disasters" an early intervention initiative to encourage children to talk about their feelings and begin the healing process. Starting this Saturday, January 23rd at 1:00pm and continuing every Saturday at 1:00pm. At Konbit Neg Lakay and by Gemstone Foundation, Inc. and Dr. Johnson,RN,MPH Ph.D. Please call 300-5324 or 425-4623 for more information. PLEASE VISIT THE ROCKLAND HAITI RELIEF CAMPAIGN WEBSITE to find out more about our local, long-term effort that has been working in Haiti for 3 years and hand delivers all donations by Rockland County residents and professionals. Take Action-
One very concrete step we can all take to assist the people is Haiti is to advocate for the immediate cancellation of Haiti's $890 million debt and ensure that any emergency earthquake assistance is provided in the form of grants, not debt incurring loans.
Go to www.one.org and click on "take action" under Help Haiti, Drop the Debt. That will take you to a very simple petition to sign urging our government to take this most important step.
Please e-mail with any new resources or information.
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In Nyack
MLK DAY-The generosity of the beloved community of Nyack and Rockland County was felt 1.18 at the Martin Luther King Day Festival. What a wonderful way to honor his legacy with community service and donations to the people of Haiti. A mountain of formula, diapers, water, flashlights, bags of clothes, parmalat, toothbrushes and toiletries were donated at Nyack Center during the Martin Luther King Festival on Monday. More donations should be taken to Konbit Neg Lekay (Rockland's official donation site)(see below for more details.)
To be added to a main mailing list of resources in our area-e-mail haitireliefcampaign@gmail.com
Nyack Center will be partnering with Trendsetters Store in Nyack, Nyack College and the YMCA. Trendsetters is collecting-Baby formula, Parmalat, Water, Shoes, Flashlights, Batteries, First aid kits.
Donations can be dropped at Trendsetters at the corner of Depew and Franklin 553-2206 or at Konbit Neg Lakay 425-4623 16E Church St, Spring Valley (official Rockland County drop off site)
The Rockland County YMCA will also be accepting supplies to be shipped to Haiti. The items most needed: Iodine, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol,topical antibiotic, hand sanitizer and water (anything but gallon
containers).You may drop off supplies M-F 6AM-10PM. Weekends supplies may bedropped off 9AM-5PM. Local Kids raise funds and make a difference-With thanks to so many of you who were able to make it to Stop & Shop 1/19, the kids had a terrific time and performed a valuable community service for the people of Haiti. It was a great example of what an enthusiastic, motivated group of kids can do (their smiling faces are attached) - singing songs, cheering, holding up signs, even doing cartwheels, for over 4 hours! - raising an incredible $505.16 (along with a container full of baby formula, Parmalat and water) to support the relief efforts in Haiti. They proudly delivered these funds to the American Red Cross here in Nyack. Charlotte, Ryan and Cecilia Weiss were Zuliema Perez-Soto, Caroline Dillon, Abby Marraccino, Jenny Haera, and Jeff and Jerry Dangler all participated. Thanks to all of you for your generosity and encouragement.   Our daughter Grace has been thinking of what she can do to help those in need in Haiti.She would like to auction a patchwork handmade bag that she has made. Grace will be setting up an auction on ebay - will be listed under Handmade Bag for Haiti Relief. The money will be given to Red Cross Nyack. Contact Kim-Adele Rosner for information --- 917-749-0505 or kimadele.rosner@wrightinnyack.com Please e-mail with any new resources or information.
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Konbit Neg Lakay (Rockland County's official drop off site)
Konbit Neg Lakay
16 E Church St. Spring Valley, NY 10977
e-mail- haitireliefcampaign@gmail.com
Checks to made out Rockland County Haitian Relief Campaign (memo-Earthquake Relief Fund) can be sent here
or items to donate M-F 8am-7pm. They are looking for bags of rice/ beans and powderd milk.
Konbit Neg Lakay is providing services to the community. They are collecting names for their trips to Haiti to help find missing family members. Konbit Neg Lekay is planning several trips to Haiti with medical personnel, medical supplies and other donated items.
Konbit Neg Lakay is also coordinating efforts countywide for support, resources and information. PLEASE VISIT THE ROCKLAND HAITI RELIEF CAMPAIGN WEBSITE to find out more about our local, long-term effort that has been working in Haiti for 3 years and hand delivers all donations by Rockland County residents and professionals.
KONBIT NEG LAKAY IN GREAT NEED OF COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS to help sort all donations. Open on weekends for this effort. Please call or just show up.
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$500 was raised to benefit Nyack Rotary's ShelterBox project. (See below for ways to participate)
Nyack Rotary will also be collecting funds for Shelterbox-an international relief effort to provide temporary housing during disasters. A demonstration ShelterBox will be at Nyack Center on Jan 18th MLK Celebration as well. Checks can be made to Nyack Rotary Foundation and mailed to-
Rotary ShelterBox Project-
From David Green District Governor "As we watch the magnitude of the tragedy unfolding in Haiti and observe the human suffering time is of essence to act. Larry's e-mail below speaks of the capability of Shelter Box to meet many of the basic needs in this time of crisis. The cost per shelter box is $1,000.00"
Wednesday 13 January 2010: ShelterBox responds to Haiti earthquake
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The Nyack Public School has issued a comprehensive list of resources. For additional information or questions-
Contact your Family Resource Center-
Upper Nyack Elementary-Rachel Berlin (Creole Speaking) 353-7263
Liberty Elementary-Maria Harocopos (Spanish Speaking) 353-7247
Valley Cottage Elementary-Julie Kassel 353-7291
Nyack Middle School-Lisa Retallack 353-7214
School Community Liason-Jocelyne Abraham (Creole Speaking) 353-7044
Nyack Middle School's G.O. (student government) is beginning to collect blankets, and will ask for water, formula, and summer clothes.
Liberty Elementary will be collecting bottles of water for the relief effort. For more information call Liberty School contact listed below.
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Donations
According to the State Department and folks on the ground in Haiti, the best we can all do RIGHT NOW is donate money. One of the things we know is that financial donations will be needed for some time, consider an ongoing gift that automatically comes from your account. Some Organizations are collecting items for further efforts as the days and weeks pass.
Nyack Center will be partnering with Trendsetters Store in Nyack, Nyack College and the YMCA. Trendsetters is collecting-Baby formula, Parmalat, Water, Shoes, Flashlights, Batteries, First aid kits.
Donations can be dropped at Trendsetters at the corner of Depew and Franklin 553-2206 or at Konbit Neg Lakay 425-4623 16E Church St, Spring Valley (official Rockland County drop off site)
The Rockland County YMCA will be accepting supplies to be shipped to Haiti. The items most needed: Iodine, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol,
topical antibiotic, hand sanitizer and water (anything but gallon containers).You may drop off supplies M-F 6AM-10PM. Weekends supplies may bedropped off 9AM-5PM. Konbit Neg Lakay 16 E Church Street, Spring Valley NY 10977 425-4623 (official Rockland drop off site) KONBIT NEG LAKAY IN GREAT NEED OF COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS to help sort all donations. Open on weekends for this effort. Please call or just show up.
Checks made to Rockland County Haitian Relief Campaign (memo- Earthquake Relief Fund) can be sent here
or items to donate M-F 8am-7pm
American Airlines is taking doctors and nurses to Haiti for free. Please call 212 697 9767
Rockland County Legislature will be collecting items at 11 New Hempstead Road in New City Monday-Thursday 9:30-4:40pm.
Financial Contributions
These charities, and many others, are providing care. If you can contribute to help fund their emergency efforts, please do.
Locally-
Konbit Neg Lakay 16 E Church Street, Spring Valley NY 10977 425-4623
Checks made to Rockland County Haitian Relief Campaign (memo- Earthquake Relief Fund) can be sent here. 9more on Konbit Neg Lekay box above)
Grace Church Nyack will be accepting donations for The Episcopal Diocese of New York: Send checks made out to "The Episcopal Diocese of New York" and marked "Haiti Relief" to Grace Church 130 First Avenue Nyack, NY 10960 or
The Episcopal Diocese of New York 1047 Amsterdam Ave New York NY 10025 Make a credit card donation online and type "Haiti Relief" in the description box. Donations through Episcopal Relief and Development: Go to https://www.er-d.org/donate-select.php Nationally-
Text "YELE" to 501501 to donate $5 to Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Fund. You
can also text "HAITI" to 90999 to Donate $10 to the Red Cross. If you text "HAITI" to 90999 on your cell phone a $10.00 donation will
immediately be made to the Red Cross and billed to your phone bill. Doctors Without Borders: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=86019&id=18575-11138261-DBtzKmx&t=1
Oxfam America: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85998&id=18575-11138261-DBtzKmx&t=2
Send a check to" Red Cross, 143 North Broadway, Nyack, NY
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The Rockland County Department of Mental Health's Crisis Hotline is available for those grieving or in crisis (845) 364-2216-creole translation available.
Rockland Psychological Association - offering pro bono counseling/therapy for Haitian families and for Haitian care-givers who are community members. Call Dr. David Drasner 638-3306 or Dr. Jen Walker at 914-924-0353 or email at drjwalker@aol.com
St. Anne's Church, Nyack 358-4707-Friday Jan 15th at 7:30 (call for additional times)
St. Joseph's Church, Spring Valley 356-0311 (ongoing)
Mt. Sinai 7th Day Adventist Church, Spring Valley 342-4806 (ongoing0
VCS, New City 634-5729
BOCES, Nyack 348-3504 (BOCES Family Resource Center)
InfoRock 364-2020 - offers information on any county resources to help families in crisis. CREOLE SPEAKING STAFF AVAILABLE
Hudson Valley Health Plan at Kombit Neg Lakay every M-F, 9-3 and at to provide healthcare information and insurance for children including refugee children.
Nyack YMCA on South Broadway in Nyack offers Child Health Plus enrollment for health insurance for children and families. Creole and French speaking facilitators available every Monday from 5pm -7pm. Call 358-0245 for more information. Health Life Line - Dr. Lloyd Hamilton on First Ave, Nyack (across from St. Anne's Church) providing doctor's check-ups, healthcare for NON-INSURED ADULTS. By appointment. Please call 358-5433. Open Mondays and Wednesdays from 8am-4pm. |
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Senator Schumer's Office in Peekskill (914) 734-1532
Representative Eliot Engel's Office in Rockland (845) 735-1000
Konbit Neg Lakay in Spring Valley (845) 425-4623. Konbit Neg Lekay will take information and their workers will look on foot for missing loved ones in Haiti. Forms available at Nyack Center, Nyack Public Schools Family Resource Centers and Konbit Neg Lekay.
Finkelstein Library
-is offering FREE faxing to and from Haiti for Haitian families. Also some phones available for phone calls to families. Finklestein Memorial Library has a place on their web site to report missing family members-for more info call Richard Marbeth at 352-5700 ext 275 creole translation available. -updated county resources listed on their website at: www.finkelsteinlibrary.org To report missing loved ones conatact: Jean Elie Porchette at her e-mail address jeanelie12@hotmail.com or call 202.265.9942, action #42, leave a message with your name, name of Haitian missing person, their Haitian phone #, and your #.
InfoRock 364-2020 - offers information on any county resources to help families in crisis. CREOLE SPEAKING STAFF AVAILABLE |
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In Haverstraw
The Village of Haverstraw municipal government is willing and able to accept monetary donations from individuals and organizations who would like to donate money for Haitian relief. These donations will be forwarded to responsible groups (such as the Haitian Relief Campaign- see below) to be put to direct use for those in desperate need, and to get supplies/materials to Haiti as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Several members of the Haverstraw Collaborative, as well as many others, attended the meeting this morning across the street from Konbit Neg Lakay, and are involved in helping to mobilize coordinated efforts. There is one group of volunteers, the Haitian Relief Campaign, that has been meeting for many months to look for ways to support Haiti. Ron Figueroa, one of the group's founders, has been working with the Rockland County Haiti Relief Campaign since the summer of 2008. Other partners include HACSO, Konbit Neg Lakay, Ramapo Haitian Taskforce, Haitian American Nurses Association, Haitian Diaspora Foundation, RC Immigration Coalition, St. Joseph's Church. They already have an amazing network on the ground in Haiti-- connected with religious groups, civic associations, governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Mayor Kohut has been working in conjunction with the Harvest Assembly of God Church on Lincoln Street (Reverend Michel Beaudouin) on relief efforts. Donations of the following are being requested:Dried/Canned food (not expired)Clean Clothing/shoes (children, women, men, young adults)- all sizes Bottles/gallons of water These items may be dropped off either at Village Hall (40 New Main Street), the Haverstraw Center (50 West Broad Street), or Harvest Assembly of God Church(4 Lincoln Street)
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From Julie Agoos-My niece, Zoe Agoos, assistant to Dr. Paul Farmer
organization has a nearly 30 year history in Haiti, and is an ideal organization to donate to since the infrastructure and medical of Partners in Health, sent this (below) on yesterday to inform their network of PiH relief work and the need for donations. As Tracy Kidder noted in his New York Times editorial this morning, Partners in Health has the largest and strongest medical infrastructure in Haiti, and all 10 hospitals and clinics are structurally sound and running since the earthquake. This teams are already in place; theirs were in fact the first doctors on the scene. Please see the links below and disseminate to our community on your website. If you join the Pih email network, you will receive daily briefings on the conditions on the ground in port au Prince through their executive director Ophelia Dahl. Thanks so much for all your information as well. Over the past 18 hours, Partners In Health staff in Boston and Haiti have
been working to collect as much information as possible about the conditions on the ground, the relief efforts taking shape, and all relevant logistics issues in order to respond efficiently and effectively to the most urgent needs in the field. At the moment, PIH's Chief Medical Officer is on her way to Haiti, where she will meet with Zanmi Lasante leadership and head physicians, who are already working to ensure PIH's coordinated relief efforts leveraging the skills of more than 120 doctors and nearly 500 nurses and nursing assistants who work at Zanmi Lasante's sites. We have already begun to implement a two-part strategy to address the immediate need for emergency medical care in Port-au-Prince. First, we are organizing the logistics to get the medical staff and supplies needed for setting up field hospital sites in Port-au-Prince where we can triage patients, provide emergency care, and send those who need surgery or more complex treatment to our functioning hospitals and surgical facilities. To do this, we are creating a supply chain through the Dominican Republic. Second, we are ensuring that our facilities in the Central Plateau are ready to serve the flow of patients from Port-au-Prince. Operating and procedure rooms are staffed, supplied, and equipped for surgeries and we have converted a church in Cange into a large triage area. Already our sites in
Cange and Hinche are reporting a steady flow of people coming with medical needs from the capital city. In the days that come we will need to make sure our pharmacies and supplies stay stocked and our staff continue to be able to respond. Currently, our greatest need is financial support Haiti is facing a crisis worse than it has seen in years, and it is a country that has faced years of crisis, both natural disaster and otherwise. The country is in need of millions of dollars right now to meet the needs of the communities hardest hit by the earthquake. Our facilities are strategically placed just two hours outside of Port-au-Prince and will inevitably absorb the flow of patients out of the city. In addition, we need cash on-hand to quickly procure emergency medical supplies, basic living necessities, as well as transportation and logistics support for the tens of thousands of people that will be seeking care at mobile field hospitals in the capital city. Any and all support that will help us respond to the immediate needs and continue our mission of strengthening the public health system in Haiti is greatly appreciated. Help us stand up for Haiti now. If you are not in a position to make a financial contribution, you can help us raise awareness of the earthquake tragedy. Please alert your friends to the situation and direct them to www.pih.org for updates and ways to help. Thank you for your solidarity during this crisis, Ophelia Dahl Executive Director |
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PHONE: (845) 517-7766
E-MAIL: EAYALA@CMADC.COM Doctors Delatre Lolo and Childebert St. Louis, two physicians of The Ben Gilman Medical Clinic in Spring Valley, are heading to Haiti to join in the relief effort in the wake of last week's devastating earthquakes. Dr. Lolo will be departing to Haiti on 1.19, while Dr. St. Louis left on 1.18. The two will be carrying a large amount of medical supplies donated by the Ben Gilman Clinic, including IV units and bags, gauze and other bandages, suture kits, first aid kits, Betadine, Heplock, Kevlix, sterile drapes, splints, and other medical and surgical supplies. Both will be in Haiti for approximately two weeks. The two doctors, both natives of Haiti, will be traveling with different groups of physicians heading to Haiti for the relief effort. Dr. Lolo will be heading to Haiti with a group of New York City physicians, while Dr. St. Louis went with a group of physicians and other professionals affiliated with the NOAH organization, or the National Organizations for the Advancement of Haitians. "As a Haitian, I feel compelled to go there and provide care for the victims," said Dr. St. Louis. "I thank the Gilman Clinic for encouraging me to go, and for participating in this effort. They have been very supportive," he added. Dr. Lolo agreed. "We are going to do our part in this relief effort to help the people of Haiti who desperately need our assistance." The Ben Gilman Clinic has teamed up with the Village of Spring Valley in this effort. On Sunday afternoon, Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin joined the administration and doctors of the Gilman Clinic to announce these trips. "I want to thank the Ben Gilman Clinic for its efforts," she said. "It is so important for everyone who can help to do so," she continued. The Gilman Clinic, located at 175 Route 59, and the Village Hall of Spring Valley, are two locations where anyone wishing to contribute supplies, clothing, or medicines, can drop them off. Anyone with questions on how to join the Ben Gilman Clinic's relief efforts should call the Ben Gilman Clinic at (845) 426-5800. |
