NJ for Haiti is working with at least ten other organizations to bring aid to the island. The medical team, 10 doctors and 10 nurses his organization established on the island after the 2010 earthquake, will head to the impacted area later this week. The annual mission trip is to address the medical needs of residents ahead of a new school year. The political unrest and the pandemic delayed a trip that Marcellus and his team would normally make around this time of year. Usually when those things happen, the diaspora has been a great support in times like this.” “We need that because the government has not been able to organize fast enough to create support internally for this region. That would be very helpful at the moment,” he said. “My hope is just that there will be a big support of the Haiti community in that moment, and particularly if they can provide supplies like medicine, tents, nonperishable, first aid kits to go to Haiti. She wasn’t aware of any plans yet to collect supplies to send to Haiti, but suspects the need will be great.
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While she doesn’t actively update the page anymore, it has spawned an online group that helps Haitians throughout the state communicate. In 2018, Romeus organized a Facebook page called “Haitians in Delaware” to help members of the community connect with each other online. But all I can say we can do is pray, call on God to heal us.” “I’m used to hurricanes, but come on,” Romeus said. at the age of seven, and moved to Delaware from East Orange, New Jersey in the early 90s. As a little girl, she moved back to the island to live with her grandmother while her parents both worked long hours. All that has been pretty hard.”īrenda Romeus is equally beleaguered. “It’s like you’re asking, ‘When will it be enough? When will it stop?’ Hoping for a miracle, for the situation in Haiti to change. It’s like we are going through a cycle of events, it’s hard to see that happening again and again and again,” Pastor Marcelin said. “Another earthquake is pretty horrible for us. The country saw more than 1,100 cases and 89 deaths in the last month, according to the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard. “We’re hoping that God would spare us because it’s supposed to be a pretty bad hurricane,” Marcellus said.Ī tropical storm would be another devastating blow for Haiti, which is still reeling from the July assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “I’ve not succeeded on establishing communication.” “When I heard the news, one of my first reactions was to try to call one of my cousins that I talk to from time to time with that lives over there in the south,” he said. Monday morning, he too was still waiting to hear from family living in the southern part of the island nation, which was hardest hit by Saturday’s quake. Pastor Livingstone Marcelin said many church members likely stayed home trying to reach loved ones still living in Haiti by telephone.
In Delaware, attendance Sunday was lower than usual at Blades First Haitian Church of God near Seaford. “This was the guy who was pretty much in charge of that area in terms of businesses and political stuff, infrastructure,” Marcellus said, adding he was a “very, very, very good person.”
Marcellus said Fortuné was someone his organization had a relationship with in the area. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorĪmong those killed was Gabriel Fortuné, a longtime lawmaker and former mayor of Les Cayes, when his hotel collapsed, according to a local newspaper.
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