Haiti Relief

There is a group from Mountains to Mississippi (the organization we work with in Pearlington) that is co-ordinating efforts to help with the relief in Haiti. The following is a message I received from one of the coordinators. If you are willing to help them, please go to this website: avmfaspen.org and click on the give a gift now button. Make sure to specify for Mountains to Mississippi--Haiti Relief.

Hello to All,

First, thank you all for sending your hearts, love and help to Mississippi when we were so desperately in need of support mentally, physically and financially. In case some of you do not know, Tom Dalesandri (Mountains to Miss. ) from the Carbondale Firefighters have stayed in touch with Pearlington and now the Stennis Rotarians will turn over a new Mobile Medical Clinic (MMC) January 22, 2010 for hurricane disaster response and community health clinics. Tom and I feel that P'Town is still in recovery mode and we are willing with our group of Katrina doctors (that most of you met) are willing to respond, if the community needs it.

However, the disaster in Haiti is so horrific; we have asked if we could take the MMC to Haiti or at least go in response to the medical need. At this time, we are pulling together a response team and ask you to call out to your community for help again mentally, physically, and financially.

Mountains to Mississippi is the 501C3 that the money will go to and Tom is organizing the work teams. I am helping coordinate the medical teams. We will need doctors, nurses, EMT's, meds, and money initially for our first team. After we go and assess, we will return and update all.

Dr. Bill Gossman is heading there tomorrow. He will assess and keep us posted. Please keep him in your prayers. There are thousands of lives lost and they need medical help desperately! There will lots of amputations because of lack of medical care and loss of blood.

Paula Buhr, RN