This End Down

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There is no way to even begin to share the things we’ve heard and seen since 5pm yesterday … yes the four story Caribbean Market building is completely demolished. Yes it was open. Yes the National Palace collapsed. Yes Gov’t buildings nearby the Palace collapsed. Yes St Josephs Boys home is completely collapsed. …

Thousands of people are currently trapped. … Precious lives hang in the balance. When pulled from the rubble there is no place to take them for care.  Haiti has an almost non existent medical care system for her people.

There are friends and co-workers that are missing. … The horror has only just begun and I beg you to get on your knees – I truly mean ON YOUR KNEES and pray for the people of this country. The news might forget in a few days – but people will still be trapped alive and suffering. Pray. Pray. Pray. After that – PLEASE PRAY.

From LivesayHaiti

Photos

• The Boston Globe’s Big Picture (by far the best collection): http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/earthquake_in_haiti.html
• ABC News Slideshow: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/slideshow?id=9546756
• Terremoto in Haiti Flickr set
• Lisandro Suero’s Twitpics

News

• NYTimes: The Lede blog (actively updated with collection of news): http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/gleaning-information-from-haiti-online/
• Wikipedia: 2010 Haiti Earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_earthquake
• CNN Haiti Quake Site: http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2010/haiti.quake/
• LivesayHaiti (a missionary blog): http://livesayhaiti.blogspot.com/

Aid/Organizations

• Red Cross: http://newsroom.redcross.org/2010/01/12/disaster-alert-earthquake-in-haiti/
• Worldvision: http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/world-vision-haiti?Open&lpos=lft_txt_Haiti
• Partners in Health: http://pih.org/
• Full list here: http://www.urbanfaith.com/2010/01/ways-to-help-haiti.html