Here is another roundup of sto­ries that caught our inter­est in regards to the Hait­ian earthquake.

In this story from Canada’s National Post, we learn about the death of a Cana­dian nurse that just arrived on the island.

An Ontario nurse killed while vol­un­teer­ing in Haiti when the deadly earth­quake struck has been iden­ti­fied by her church as Yvonne Martin.

The Water­loo Men­non­ite Brethren Church iden­ti­fied Ms. Mar­tin on its web­site, along with a writ­ten memo­r­ial to the nurse, who had arrived in Haiti just 90 min­utes before the quake hit.

“It is with a heavy heart that I share with you the death of our dear sis­ter, Yvonne Mar­tin,” said the state­ment on the Water­loo church’s web­site. “Yvonne passed away as the result of the earth­quake in Haiti, where she had just arrived to do med­ical mis­sion work for the fourth time.”

Ms. Mar­tin, who would have been 68 this year, was part of a team of seven peo­ple from the Kitchener-based Evan­gel­i­cal Mis­sion­ary Church in Canada who had arrived in Port-au-Prince Tues­day after­noon to pro­vide human­i­tar­ian assis­tance to sev­eral north­ern Hait­ian com­mu­ni­ties. Accord­ing to the church, Ms. Mar­tin and her col­leagues — all from south­ern Ontario — had just checked into a guest­house when the earth­quake started and the build­ing col­lapsed. Ms. Mar­tin was killed but her col­leagues man­aged to escape. The church says it learned of her death Wednes­day morning.

Ms. Mar­tin was well-known in the Elmira area and worked at the Elmira Med­ical Clinic for more than 30 years.

Col­league Val Thom­son told the National Post that Ms. Mar­tin was “one of the most kind peo­ple I’ve ever met.”

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2438230#ixzz0cXxqM3eL
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The Ken­tucky Post has this video of the char­ity Matthew 25 which is pre­pair­ing to ship goods to Haiti.

In our first roundup of sto­ries we linked to a story of a Michi­gan char­ity that lost con­tact with it’s orphan­age in Haiti. This story from MSNBC brings us the story for a church in Penn­syl­va­nia going through a sim­i­lar dilemma.

“We lost [con­tact with] our build­ing,” Cre­spo said after a magnitude-7 earth­quake Tues­day crum­pled most struc­tures in Port-au-Prince, the poverty-stricken cap­i­tal of 8 mil­lion peo­ple. He and three other staff mem­bers from the non­de­nom­i­na­tional church were des­per­ate to get to the site as quickly as pos­si­ble, tak­ing with them food, med­i­cine and a tent to house the 11 chil­dren and five staff members.

They don’t know what they’ll find when they get to the orphan­age, which the church oper­ates along with with Hope Point Com­mu­nity Church of Spar­tan­burg, S.C., and Rice Bowls, a non­profit min­istry that part­ners with orphan­ages in under­de­vel­oped com­mu­ni­ties around the world.

“We’re expect­ing the worst,” said Cre­spo, whose mis­sion is just the spear­head of an effort that will see his wife, Luz, and numer­ous other church mem­bers flood­ing the San­tos neigh­bor­hood, where the orphan­age once stood, in the com­ing weeks.

They’re not even sure how they’ll get there, because most flights to the coun­try are can­celed, and com­mu­ni­ca­tions remain difficult.

Cre­spo planned to take the team on a flight Wednes­day night to Santo Domingo, cap­i­tal of the Domini­can Repub­lic, which shares the island of His­pan­iola with Haiti. From there, they hoped to find ground trans­porta­tion and a route through the devastation.

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