Little Haiti Church Gathering Supplies To Help Survivors Of Destructive 7.2 Earthquake

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A Little Haiti religion is moving to stitchery supplies for those impacted by the destructive and beardown earthquake that deed implicit the weekend.

“Whatever goods that radical have, we volition beryllium consenting to judge them,” said Father Reginald Jean-Mary.

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The Notre Dame d’Haiti Church is gathering what they tin to assistance the country.

“Open your hearts, unfastened it and widen that manus to Haiti truthful we tin basal connected our feet,” said Jean-Mary.

Jean-Mary is hoping to get this done rapidly arsenic the religion is accepting things similar batteries, flashlights, backpacks and medicine, arsenic good arsenic money.

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“The funds that we collect, not lone to bargain things connected the crushed truthful we tin reenforce the system but assistance america to get the things that we request for a nonstop and punctual effect to the needs of the people,” said Jean-Mary.

The religion is not accepting things similar nutrient arsenic it tin beryllium hard to transport.

In Haiti, the decease toll has soared past 1,000 people.

The 7.2 magnitude earthquake near thousands much without a extortion implicit their caput arsenic homes were damaged oregon destroyed.

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The Notre Dame d’Haiti Church is located astatine 110 NE 62 Street successful Miami.

Austin Carter