PHOTO GALLERY Dearest Friends, I want to give you the latest news from Haiti, in particular from Jeremie. Father Massimo and two volunteers, reported as missing, are alive and well. As regards our mission, the old seminary, in particular, has been partly destroyed, and the storerooms have been flooded. The ‘Saint Camille’ specialist hospital centre for the treatment of grave skin injuries and burns, which is at the construction stage, has been in part damaged, above all the roof. The town of Jeremie has been very largely destroyed and totally flooded. The population is in a dire situation, without drinking water, food and medicines. Father Massimo was interviewed by RAI News24 and will also be interviewed by other TV channels and newspapers. In them you will  obtain further information from the spoken voice of Father Massimo.   This is the appeal that Fr. Robert Daudier, the head of the mission in Haiti, has sent us: Dear Friends, I ask you for aid for Haiti, the victim of the hurricane Matthew which struck on 4-5 October of this year. We have grave social needs, many human lives have been lost, as well as material possessions; a very large number of homes and roads have been destroyed. As missionaries who work in Haiti, we ask you to see how you can help us to support the people who have been the victims of this hurricane. We in Port-au-Prince are getting organised to go to Jeremie with an ambulance full of health-care supplies, but this is nothing compared to the immense needs of the population. The cholera epidemic is increasing and our centre is already full. We need food products, medicines, material for building, and money. We send you our most fraternal greetings and we thank you in advance. Robert Daudier As soon as possible we will send containers to help the population, above all in Jeremie, the town in the south struck by the hurricane which has been almost totally destroyed. We need:   –          Medical products: antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, gastrointestinal drugs, dermatological products, gynaecological products, vitamins. –          Food products: powdered milk for children, tinned products (tuna, canned meat, beans, peas, tomatoes, etc.), pasta, rice, oil, milk, biscuits, etc. For those who want to make a donation for the reconstruction following the hurricane Matthew, the following are the bank data for the banker’s order: IBAN IT22S0200801046000101096394 – Banca UNICREDIT – Filiale di TORINO VIA XX SETTEMBRE, or the post office account 70170733, both in the name of MADIAN Orizzonti ONLUS. Thank you, Father Antonio

8 October 2016, 8.30

The press release of the Provincial Superior of the Order of Camillian Religious.

‘Dearest Religious,

This morning some TV news bulletins and newspapers gave the news that our religious Fr. Massimo Miraglio, and two volunteers sent by Madian Orizzonti Torino, were reported missing after the dramatic and devastating impact of the hurricane Matthew on Jeremie, a town in Haiti in the centre of the area that was especially hit.

With relief, early this morning a press release of Fr. Robert Daudier, the Delegate Superior of the Delegation of Haiti, communicated that he has been able to get into contact with this religious who is therefore alive and well, and with the two volunteers (news confirmed by Fr. Antonio Menegon).

People have not been injured but the hospital (which is still being built) has lost a part of its roof; the town has been devastated and there have been countless deaths. On the one hand, thanking God for the comforting news about Fr. Massimo and the volunteers, at the same time our thoughts and commitment go to the poor victims of the hurricane in this particularly tortured island of Haiti in the Caribbean. We are committed to an attempt to alleviate the pain’.

Fraternal greetings.

7 October 2016
     The number of deaths in Haiti caused by the impact of the hurricane Matthew has increased to 339 according to an announcement of the local authority, cited by the BBC, this morning. The hurricane hit land at seven in the morning on 5 October, with winds greater than 230 kilometres an hour.

According to the civil protection agency in Haiti, about fifty people died in the southern city of Roche-a-Bateau alone, whereas in Jeremie, where Father Massimo Miraglio is and where we have done a great deal in recent years to build the ‘Saint Camille’ Hospital for the treatment of skin injuries, 80% of the buildings have been destroyed.

Our missionaries, in particular Father Robert Daudier, the head of the mission in Haiti, has still not managed to get into contact with Father Massimo in Jeremie.

In fact, the telephone system has broken down and the roads connecting Port-au-Prince with Jeremie are blocked.

UNICEF has launched an alarm and is speaking about four million children at risk because of contaminated water. Indeed, the first cases of cholera have immediately appeared.

In recent hours a collection of medical products and food products with long expiry dates has been made and these products will be sent to Haiti as soon as possible. You can bring your offerings to the sacristy of the Church of San Giuseppe in Via Santa Teresa 22, Turin.

For those who want to make a donation for the reconstruction following the hurricane Matthew, the following are the bank data for the banker’s order: IBAN IT22S0200801046000101096394 – Banca UNICREDIT – Filiale di TORINO VIA XX SETTEMBRE, or the post office account 70170733, both in the name of MADIAN Orizzonti ONLUS.