Your help is needed in Haiti! PLEASE HELP!

You may have heard the devastating news of the many earthquakes and continuous after shocks in Haiti.   It is not over yet and the damage will take years to rebuild.

The Missionary Ventures Field Coordinators in Haiti, Ed Lockett and Candy Rieger are safe and are doing all they can to help.  Ed has in his care about 40 children who were all housed in a building Ed called the Happy House.  They are now without a home or food and water.  Below are some first hand accounts from Ed Lockett in the last 24 hours. 

"Here is what is happening on the ground in Petit Goave. The population, all of us, continue to sleep outside. Food supplies are going down. Gas is at best very hard to find. When a little comes in, there are long lines and fights at the gas station. Needless to say the price has gone up considerably. We get NO news here of any kind of a schedule or of plans for help to start arriving."

"Eight days after the quake, helicopters pass over head but do not touch down. No soldiers or police in the streets. People's nerves are getting thinner because many feel we are not on the help map and we are just waiting to die. The tremors keep everyone on edge and they feel if death doesn't come by another earthquake, it will come by starvation."

"Each night that goes by, sleeping in the streets, dealing with tremors, running out of food, no help coming, all of this puts everything closer to the edge of a population earthquake. There are more and more thieves at night. Gunfire at night. Dogs everywhere bark all night long. The nights here are not restful but keep getting noisier and more dangerous."

"We have been helping a few hundred people by giving rice, beans and medicine. We have sent a continual flow of money and food to several families, groups, and neighborhoods. We had a bunch of rice and beans in the school for our feeding program and have given all of that away."

"We have enough food for ourselves for a few more days. We're not eating real healthy, just eating. I have yet to get my appetite back. The kids are all pulling through. The Happy House is still standing with what appears to be not too much damage. But the continual tremors make it a scary place."

"The longer they wait to help, the harder it will be to help... and the fewer there will be to help."

For more updates, you can follow MV Field Coordinator, Ed Lockett on facebook