TouchGlobal Crisis Response Team in Haiti has partnered with a number of organizations in order to do the work of relief, development, and church planting. 6 months after the earthquake, the relief work is beginning to "morph" into longer term development work. One of the most pressing needs still is "perma-temporary" housing. The picture above shows a typical scene in Haiti as tent villages sprang up around the affected area. Now it is hurricane season and it is raining in Haiti...a lot. TouchGlobal has partnered with Samaritan's Purse in order to provide housing that will last 2-3 years and withstand a category 2 hurricane. (Remember the problem with wood as a long term building strategy in Haiti? No lumber industry and termites) We travelled with TouchGlobal staff and short term mission workers to the city of Bethel where they were moving families into the "perma-temporary" housing.
The houses don't look like much, do they? But to someone who has been living in a tent in a "tent jungle" in the rain and the mud, in fear that their children will walk out the door and get hit by a car, these homes are like "paradise". The TouchGlobal staff and teams prayed with each family as they dedicated the new "home" and helped them move in. This work will be necessary for many more months until the work of building real permanent shelters can take place. This is a very real possibility for a short term project for the Czech churches.
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