Many of you have asked us how La Tortue, Haiti, faired during the recent hurricanes. We finally heard from our friend Antony who runs the Christian radio station, 4VET, and a local trade school on the island. Here's part of what he had to say, translated from the Creole:
"We had a lot of problems here with the two hurricanes that passed through. There's a lot of damage. Almost all of the boats, large and small, that were anchored in the port were destroyed...around 40 boats in all. Lots of schools lost their roofs; homes were destroyed...Lots of trees are down...All the banana gardens are gone...The radio station antenna and two solar panels are broken. The wind generator, too, isn't working, and almost all of the diesel generators in the area are broken down...As for the trade school, we're helping the young people so they don't have to sit out the year doing nothing. They have no money to pay, but we'll still have some special classes for them because things are tought here. The regular schools won't even open until October."
Please pray for their situation there on La Tortue. Life was incredibly difficult there before these latest setbacks.
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Thanks for sending this update. We will definitely keep the people on La Tortue in our prayers. We know it won't be easy for them to rebuild after such loss but we know that our God is able to immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine!
In Christ's love...
Jim and Tina Fields
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