Dear Friends,

The devastation Haiti has experienced is immense, and the need right now is great.  Below is an opportunity to help package 80,000 meals for Haiti with Stop Hunger Now, supplies that are needed, information on how to help financially, and opportunities to help the MERCI Center with the sorting of incoming items.  If you want to bring supplies to the church, I will make sure they get to the right place. Please contact me if you can help drive supplies to the MERCI Center during the week.  Please continue to keep all of the people of Haiti in your prayers!

Blessings,
Renae Newmiller, Missions Coordinator

Items Most Needed for Haiti 

Food Needs

• New, unopened and sealed bags of dried beans.  
• New, unopened & sealed bags of rice.
• New, unopened cans of vegetables (any size, with pop top lid).
• New, unopened cans of fruit (any size with pop top lid).

Medical Needs

• Plastic or Fiberglass Casting
• Suture 3-0, 4-0 Nylon
• Suture Instrument Kits
• Betadine
• 4x4 Dressing
• Roll Gauze
• Web Roll for Casting
• Saline IV and Irrigation
• Injectable Pain Medication
• Injectable Antibiotics IV and IM Rocephin, ANCEF, KFLEX
• External Fixtures: Splints and insertion devices
• Traction Bows and Pins
• Crutches, canes, braces of any kind

Basic Needs

• Blankets
• Sheets
• Towels
• Wash Cloths
• Tarps
• Tents
• Health Kit  A Health Kit contains specific items:
  • 1 hand towel (15” x 25” up to 17” x 27”)
  • 1 wash cloth
  • 1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket-sized and no picks)
  • 1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
  • 1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz and up)
  • 1 toothbrush (single brush only in original wrapper; no child-sized brushes and no multipacks)
  • 1 large tube of toothpaste
  • 6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages
    All items should be placed inside a sealed one-gallon plastic bag. No money, notes, religious or political literature, or other items should be placed in the kits.

Donate
To help financially, please make a check out to ESUMC, with "Haiti Relief" written in the memo line.

Volunteer

To volunteer at the MERCICenter, call 888-440-9167 or email merci@nccumc.org to volunteer at their warehouse to make kits and pack boxes for Haiti or to schedule a delivery.

To help drive supplies from ESUMC to the MERCICenter throughout the week, please contact Renae at 919-832-7535 ext. 231.