Global Missions at ESUMC

ESUMC is involved in long-term global mission projects in Africa, East Asia, Haiti and Reynosa, Mexico.  Below is information about current Haiti Disaster Relief efforts.  For information about our other global efforts, please use the Missions menu tabs.

 

Haiti Disaster Relief

We're Still Collecting Supplies 

Items Most Needed for Haiti 

(Please place supplies/donations in room 151, or in the bins marked Haiti by the first floor reception desk.) 

 

Tents

It is now the rainy season in Haiti.  While there are many tarps, tents are especially needed.  Tents can help keep the ground dry, enabling people to lie down to sleep. 

 

Reading Glasses (the kind from the dollar store)

 

 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.

 

Thank you!