Compassionate Alliance is continuing our ministry in Haiti, with much of our activity in partnerships: churches, Royal Carribean Cruise Line, and others.
More opportunities for your involvement and continuing details on the Haiti outreach:

Hearts for Haiti: Brick City Walk (April 17): After seeing the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti, it's easy to feel helpless and it's hard to know how you and your children can help. Hearts for Haiti gives your family an opportunity to do something, while spending valuable time together...

Compassionate Alliance in Ocala Magazine: Although Port-au-Prince is 961 miles from Ocala, a bridge of relief is being built thanks, in part, to a group of local Ocalans giving their time, support and heart. Bryan Morgan shares his story -about the ongoing effort to help Haiti, leaving him to ask, "Will it be enough?"

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Compassionate Alliance's ministry and partnerships for Haiti are illustrated in this video from Meadowbrook Church.

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Compassionate Alliance's YouTube channel has new video from our relief efforts at Milot hospital in Haiti.

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CA staff have been on-site in Haiti for a week surveying the damage and offering food, water and medical supplies where possible. Churches and ministries from Florida and other areas have been generously giving of their time and money, including aid and donations from individuals. Thank you for partnering with us.

CA will be assisting with 6 more individuals traveling to Haiti in a few days. 750,000 pounds (20 truck loads) of supplies are already on their way, and a total of 500,000 hygiene kits have been delivered. CA is the lead agency to distribute aid in Labadee, Haiti through our partnership with Royal Carribean Cruise Lines. We are currently preparing 1000 temporary shelters and another 1000 tents. Two more truck loads of medicine and medical supplies are en route.

One the doctors working with CA in Haiti communicated the following information:


CA continues to solicit your support and prayers. Your partnership is vital in this time of need.

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•   Two CA staff members are already on-site in Haiti and organizing our relief efforts
•   100,000 hygiene kits were air freighted to Port au Prince today, almost $500,000 in value
•   6 loads of bottled water shipped today
•   Tents and generators will be received tomorrow in Ocala, for preparation to send to Haiti
•   Another 20 truckloads of supplies are being prepared to deliver within the next 7 days
•   CA is working with and through Royal Caribbean Cruise Line to deliver almost 1.2 million pounds of supplies into the port of Labadee
•   40,000 pounds of canned vegetables will be shipping out tomorrow

•   Baby supplies (diapers, food, wipes, bottles, baby clothes, formula) are urgently needed. Please contact our office immediately if you are willing to help.

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With ports still not functioning, CA has been able to get 1 container filled with water, food, and medicine into the Dominican Republic’s Port of Rio Haina, with 5 more containers of water leaving from the U.S. on Monday.

Compassionate Alliance has teamed up with Shand’s hospital and is taking a team of trauma doctors and nurses on a privately chartered flight leaving Sunday and landing in Port au Prince. Each of these team members is carrying 50 pounds of medicine. The CA disaster response team is leaving Tuesday on a 737 loaded with another 12,000 pounds of medical supplies ready to help those in need.

Once in Haiti, we will have a better assessment of the seaport’s capabilities and will begin working with the US military to establish a supply line from port into the affected areas. Through our partners already on the ground in Port au Prince, some distribution has begun but more will be needed in the coming days, weeks and months.

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WFTV in Orlando reported on central Florida groups helping with the Haiti recovery. Compassionate Alliance is interviewed about 3 minutes into the report.

Compassionate Alliance's Facebook page displays current updates from our staff on relief efforts.

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Compassionate Alliance is responding to the Haitian earthquake with $1,000,000 in relief supplies: sending food, water and humanitarian aide to Port au Prince, Haiti.

With the possibility of thousands dead and tens of thousands injured or displaced from their homes, the need for food, water, shelter, medical supplies, and electricity is unprecedented in one of the poorest nations in the world. Officials will have a clearer assessment of the damage in the next couple of days, but some of the pictures already on the Internet speak for themselves.

Compassionate Alliance is preparing to send humanitarian aide supplies to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Items to be shipped are 25 containers totaling a half a million bottles of water and $138,600 in value, 100,000 hygiene kits totaling $500,000 in value, and 40,000 pounds of canned goods totaling $20,000 in value.

Cash donations are needed to help support this effort. Please make a donation online or mail donations to:

Haitian Earthquake Relief
Compassionate Alliance
5760 SW 25th Street
Ocala, FL 34474

You can also call us at 352-369-5683 for further details.

Media information: to schedule interviews, please call Jeanette Morgan, Director of Community Relations, 352-369-5683 (office) or 352-286-4352 (mobile).