Haiti earthquake Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF), operations manager Paul McPhun described the situation in Haiti. MSF teams are working on medical projects Haiti. They are treatinghundreds of injured. They are setting up clinics in tents to replace their own damaged medical facilities. A massive earthquake struck the Caribbean island of Haiti. Thousands are feared dead with many more seriously injured. The epicentre of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake was just 16 kilometres from the capital Port-au-Prince. Much of the city is made up of slums and poorly constructed houses that would not be able to withstand an earthquake. The scale of the disaster is not yet known as all communication lines are currently down. But there are reports that homes, government buildings and hotels have collapsed, with people still being dug out of the rubble. The earthquake struck at 5pm local time on Tuesday 12 January 2010, and many people are spending the night on the streets. Several strong aftershocks caused further chaos and panic. Poorly resourced hospitals are struggling to cope with the large numbers of injured people and there is an urgent need for emergency medical care, food, clean water and shelter. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, and struggles from endemic poverty, food shortages and violence. It has suffered from many recent natural disasters including serious hurricanes and storms in 2008. MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. It provides medical aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened. For further information contact http://www.msf.org?spsyed_youtube

This update covers the 5 top stories for YWAM Haiti in February. It shows:-How YWAM’s long standing work in Haiti gives them the platform to distribute food from the World Food Program.-The Mercy Trucks ambulance serves as a mobile clinic in Port-au-Prince-A supernatural healing by kids helping out around the New Beginnings clinic-the 3 days of prayer and repentance by Haitians who want to see a new beginning in Haiti-The long term plan of tent communties and how you could get involved in the near future Youth With A Mission began it’s first base in Haiti in 1991 in the city of Saint Marc. Since then, YWAM Haiti has grown to play a significant role in the city, doing projects such as sanatizing the beef market and building housing for the homeless out in the province. The vision has aways been the same from its 1st founding: to turn Haiti into a blessing! Based off of the Bible scripture in Zech. 8:13, YWAM looks for ways to not just preach or fill a humanitarian need, but to create the spiritual change needed to free this nation. For decades YWAM has recieved humanitarian aid, but without the spiritual change Haiti has remained the poorest nation of the Western Hemisphere. We believe that only through God can this nation change from a curse, to a blessing!Stay up to date on what Youth With A Mission is doing in Haiti by visiting www.ywamhaiti.org