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Description: The branch office of Jehovahâ€™s Witnesses in Haiti at Santo,
near Port-au-Prince, reports no injuries among their personnel and
no major structural damage to their buildings. This video was
recorded before a devastating earthquake ravaged the Haitian capitol
of Port-au-Prince.

Additionally, communication was established
with Witness missionaries, and no injuries are reported among the
missionaries or the traveling elders among Jehovahâ€™s
Witnesses who were visiting congregations in the affected areas.

Sadly, preliminary reports confirm that 58 Witnesses lost their
lives in the earthquake; that number is expected to rise as more
reports are received

Witnesses around the world are offering
their assistance. The Witnessesâ€™ relief efforts are currently
being coordinated from their world headquarters in Brooklyn with the
assistance of the branch office in the Dominican Republic, providing
practical help and spiritual comfort for the victims.

The quake
cratered an estimated 100 schools, cracked open hospitals and tipped
over the mayors office, claiming the lives of 6,000 of the roughly
900,000 who lived in Carrefour, according to estimates by the local
civil protection department.

As bodies were thrown into trucks
and driven to the outskirts of town to be burned Friday, residents
painted toothpaste around their noses and begged passers-by for
surgical masks to cut the smell of the dead.

The branch office of
Jehovahâ€™s Witnesses in Haiti at Santo, near Port-au-Prince,
reports no injuries among their personnel and no major structural
damage to their buildings.

About 40 families huddled in a
Jehovahs Witness hall. Also the Assembly hall is being used as
refuge.

Please keep our dear brothers and sisters in your
prayers.
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By: vitotdg

Date: 12-31-69

Rated: 1

mientras escucha el discurso del presidente de HaitÃ (despuÃ©s de la publicaciÃ³n) ComunicaciÃ³n de la lo que en su mano mientras gritaba alivio para su pueblo .... http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/hai...euple/13qhnmkjb

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By: jwbrother

Date: 12-31-69

Rated: 1

E-mail from our brothers in Haiti: Things are still chaotic down here. We are doing all we can here at the Branch. Reports are starting to come in from the congregations. So far thereâ€™s been 66 of our brothers and sisters reported dead. Many injured any many are now homeless. There is a first aid station that has been set up in the Assembly Hall. The DR Branch has sent a couple of trucks with supplies and last night they got through with some doctors and surgeon. THey are setting up a simple operation room to treat anyone who comes. There are 3 KH that we know of that have collapsed and are unusable. The newer Halls are serving as bases for the local congregations and brothers. We were able to send out care packages of food, water and supplies to 400 families at the Halls yesterday afternoon. THere will be intense efforts today to send out more. The level of destruction is incredible. Itâ€™s like from a disaster movie. People have had to bury their dead loved ones in common graves, or just holes in their yard as there are no morgues, caskets or funeral homes operating. There is much concern over disease as there are hundreds of corpses in the streets. Love, Jonathan

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