FFTP in Haiti - solar powered water purification and much more

Today's Update from Food For The Poor - Tuesday 26 January 2010:

* Food For The Poor donated a solar-powered water purification machine that is processing thousands of gallons of water a day at the International Red Cross compound in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

*We have begun to distribute rice and beans in Cite Soleil through a women's organization.

* Two trucks of rice, beans, water, tents, clothing and shoes are being sent today to three beneficiaries in Jacmel.

* We are giving rice and beans to community leaders in six tent cities of Petionville, with about 6,000 displaced residents in each. The food is cooked from noon to 3 p.m., and distributed from 3 to 5 p.m.

* Food For The Poor installed an 8,000-gallon water tanks in the largest tent city in Port-au-Prince, the one at Delmas 40B. Today (1/26) they will receive 30,000 gallons of water. The camp is a shelter now for at least 50,000 people.

* 20,000 hot meals at Port-au-Prince Feeding Center daily. (Rue Barbancourt, Route de l'Aeroport)

* Two trucks of rice, beans, water, tents, clothing and shoes are being sent today to three beneficiaries in Jacmel.

* Food For The Poor has begun to distribute rice and beans in Cite Soleil through a women's organization.

* We are giving rice and beans to community leaders in six tent cities of Petionville, with about 6,000 displaced residents in each. The food is cooked from noon to 3 p.m., and distributed from 3 to 5 p.m.

* We also are distributing Crocs to those same tent cities. (Many people did not have their shoes with them after the quake and the glass and rubble on the streets are very dangerous.)

*We are supplying oxygen to 14 hospitals and clinics. Hospitals/clinics receiving oxygen are:

* Saint Francois Salle

* Asile Francais, Rue de Centre

* Bernard Mevs

* Communaute Haitienne, Rue Audant, Route de Freres

* Le Mesi

* MediMax

* Saint Espirit

* Maternite de Petion-Ville, 1 Rue Goulard

* They called Food For The Poor at noon 1/23 with a desperate situation: because of the destruction of the other hospitals they have an overflow of maternity patients that they cannot turn away. They are filled to capacity and have no food to feed their patients. They asked us for tents and food this morning and we are here at the hospital gate already (4:30 p.m.) about to deliver five large tents, 45 bags (110 pounds each) of rice, 10 bags of beans and jelly-filled toaster pastries. They were also given water, shoes and medical supplies - including IV kits.

* CDO

* Canape-Vert, Route du Canape-Vert

* Foyer Saint Camille

* In addition, Food For The Poor distributed medicine from Americares to various hospitals, finishing the day at Delmas 40B, the makeshift clinic at the tent city.

* In Cap-Haitien, we are distributing food, personal hygiene kits and Crocs to people fleeing Port-au-Prince. We are able to serve hot meals. We are seeing about 2,000 people arrive each day from Port-au-Prince.

* Food For The Poor is supplying its elderly home, girls' and boys' Angel of Hope homes, and the Little Children of Jesus Handicapped Home with hot meals each day. We are serving about 700 people a day in these homes.