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New Fundraiser starting for planetohaiti.org

David Archuleta is listed as a Key Donor with the Charity Relief “Plane To Haiti”. David truly has a heart for helping others in need!

ANGELS FOR A CAUSE IS STARTING A SPECIAL FUNDRAISER,
DONATIONS THAT ARE MADE DIRECTLY TO PLANETOHAITI.ORG VIA THEIR WEBSITE FOR $10.00 DURING THE TIME FRAME 02/01/10 TO 02/28/10 WILL RECEIVE A SPECIAL GIFT FROM US.

Angels for a Cause will be hosting a ‘One month’ fundraiser to help bring much needed donations to this cause.
Many fans have already donated to this worthy cause, and we THANK YOU for any and all donations each of you have made to date.

Donations must be made directly at http://www.planetohaiti.org/ and you MUST email the confirmation receipt to an***********@ya***.com. We will mail your bracelet to the address listed on the receipt. Donations from 02/01/10 through 02/28/10 will receive an AFAC sky-blue awareness bracelet that reads David Archuleta/Prayer of the Children.

Mission Statement
This urgent humanitarian mission will serve the devastated people of Haiti to provide over three tons of medical supplies, doctors, and medical staff. The plane is being loaded and ready to be fueled. Government clearance has been granted to land, but the necessary funding has not yet been satisfied. Your donations will help this plane fly as soon as possible, with excess funds used for additional wheelchairs and relief supplies. No donation is too big or too small. Please help today! All donations will be handled by The Wheelchair Foundation.

SOURCE: Angels For a Cause

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2nd "Plane To Haiti" update from Charli Butterfield

Well, another very busy day for us on the ground in Ft. Lauderdale.  We are preparing for our 2nd flight to Port-au-Prince tomorrow.  I have been on the phone all day confirming the names and required paperwork for all the new doctors and nurses we are taking to Haiti tomorrow along with some people working for “Clean water for Haiti” and two missionaries.

Every seat on the plane is full, with people both going to Haiti and returning back home to resupply. We have filled our cargo compartments with more much needed medical supplies, donated by Medshare and SEIU.

Jeff Behring also called me today and said they have desperate needs for basics, such as children’s vitamins, aspirin, eye drops, etc., so the crew of the aircraft, Captain Phil VanderWilt, Carol VanderWilt, Tim Hablitzel and myself all went out and bought all that we could fit into the trunk of our car to bring down with us tomorrow.

We are also bringing the military personnel on the ground at the airport 20 more pizzas, soda and ice!  Wish us luck and we will be home tomorrow night!  The photo’s are of the crew loading the plane with medical supplies at the Ft. Lauderdale airport.

Charli Butterfield

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Text Message From Chris Rudd in Haiti

Chris Rudd, an attorney and Board member, sends us a text message of his impressions from within Haiti.

“We arrived to Port-au-Prince late Wednesday with doctors, nurses, a former 82nd airborne medic, and about 3 tons of supplies.  The US troops made us feel right at home at a campsite for the few hours until dawn.  By early AM, we split into 2 groups.  One joined Scott Stapp of Creed, who came days earlier and volunteered himself into setting up an ad hoc hospital some distance from Port-au-Prince.  Jeff and Glen joined Scott.

The other group, myself included, got in touch with the 82nd airborne which escorted us in delivering supplies and medical personnel at three sites around Port-au-Prince.  I cannot describe the devastation we saw adequately with just words, but footage taken by the DC3 crew who helped organize the trip will do a better job.  Both groups worked almost 20 hours after landing, then met to drive together to a small hotel still standing about an hour from the airport. 

Today, some doctors worked at the makeshift University of Miami hospital at Port-au-Prince airport.  However, word had spread that we were here with chairs, doctors, and supplies at Port-au-Prince airport.  So we set up a makeshift aid station inside the airport and brought patients to it, as well as going out to aid stations and clinics where we learned wheelchairs, doctors, or supplies were needed.

Downtown Port-au-Prince is surreal.  Some buildings seem okay while one next door was flattened.  The smell of sewage and rotting bodies is overpowering in some areas.

Thank you to the doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who dropped everything to come here where needed most.  Thanks to the US Military men and women here keeping order.  Thanks to Scott Stapp of Creed who saw a need and raced to fill it.  Thanks to Ben Drew of John Muir and Dr. Barry Latner of Concord Hospital who like Scott, raced to go where the need was by getting us supplies.”

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Mobile Photos from "Plane To Haiti"

These pictures were taken with Jeff Behring’s phone. Jeff, along with two doctors and two nurses, drove for two hours outside of Port-au-Prince to setup a makeshift medical clinic. They gave wheelchairs to people in the village to help transport wounded and sick people to the clinic. The Haitian people were very malnourished and standing 50 deep in line to see doctors for medical attention. Conditions are very grim.

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"Plane To Haiti" update from Charli Butterfield

Charli Butterfield of the Wheelchair Foundation

Charli Butterfield of the Wheelchair Foundation

As a first hand report of our first trip into Haiti to provide doctors, nurses, medical supplies, wheelchairs, and other emergency supplies, everything went very smoothly.

We departed from the Ft. Lauderdale airport at 9:15 PM for an arrival into Port-au-Prince at 11:00 PM last night.  Everything was dark, so we couldn’t see much from the air on our approach.  Haiti has a curfew for everyone which takes effect at 7:00 PM, so the team was forced to sleep at the airport until 6:00 AM, when the curfew is lifted.  We were then able to travel to our assigned posts.  The landing was smooth and uneventful.  We were met by the US military, who was very helpful.  We were told when we departed Ft. Lauderdale that the US military needed ice.  We brought in lots of ice, 15 pizzas, and Coke.  The military was very excited and more than willing to assist us in the offloading of all our medical supplies and wheelchairs.  They let our doctors, Wheelchair Foundation volunteers, and DC3 volunteers set up a makeshift camp right next to their central base right at the airport.  MedShare rendezvoused with us at the airport to help organize the distribution of medical supplies, and Dr. Janette Nesheiwat led several of our doctors and volunteers to a small village where people were desperately seeking and in need of medical attention this morning.  Jeff Behring reported that these small villages were living in tents and had very long lines of people waiting for medical attention.  They were doing the best they could but were still in need of more medical supplies such as aspirin, blood pressure medicine, thermometers, blood pressure cuffs, etc.  We are actively searching for these items to bring with us on our next trip into Port-au-Prince on Saturday.  We have another group of doctors and nurses arriving and another plane being loaded with more medical supplies that are being trucked down right now from Medshare’s Atlanta, Georgia distribution center.  We are also working with 4 constituents representing the “Clean Water for Haiti” organization.  We couldn’t ask for a better group of people to work with.  Everyone is really pitching in and doing the best they can to help those in need of medical attention and mobility.  I am so proud of our mission, and of those who have volunteered their time and supplies to help.

Charli Butterfield

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