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HERO has done two relief missions in Haiti since the quake. We fed and took medical care of about one thousand people. We're planning another one trip before the summer is over. Please check our blog link to the left. Thank you !

"Time is running out if we are to help make sure the Haitian ...do not die in the silence of history - Dr. Paul Farmer

 

HERO - HAITI EMERGENCY RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION - YOUTUBE CHANNEL

HERO has been supporting twin Gabrielle and Gabriella since they were 2 weeks old when this video was shot. They were 2 years old when the quake ravaged Haiti. Unfortunately, Gabriella did not make it. We saw and supported Gabrielle and her parents. HEROs very own Vice President Haiti lost his one month old baby girl. HERO needs your financial support to build the "Gabrielle - Gabriella Kids Community Center" in their honor and other children survivors of the quake.

QUAKE RELIEF PICTURES - January 2010. Click on the "Latest Update" link on the sidebar for HERO's recent activities. Thank you!

"Unless Haitians and the world community act individually and collectively to end the poverty in Haiti, a Titanic destruction is forthcoming." (2005)

Simeon S. Nerelus, HERO Executive Director, From his book, Haiti and Haitians: From Challenges to Triumph - The 9-1-1 Call! 2005, lulu.com/haiti411

"In times of crisis, the world needs men of clear vision and decisive action. The nation of Haiti has produced many leaders in the past, but Pastor Nerelus stands out as a champion. I have worked with him on several relief programs and vow that he is an outstanding example of a visionary and a provider of techniques necessary for self, community, and nation building.”

Anthony D. Paul, Ph.D. Chairman, Biological Sciences Department & President of the National Association for the Prevention of Starvation (NAPS www.napsoc.org) located at Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama.

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UPDATE WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17 TH 2010! Wednesday, 01/27/2010 HERO News Update

HERO and its partner organizations: Huntsville Haiti Congress, the Jimani Project Hospital, and Think on These Things Ministry were in Haiti from January 21st through the 31st for urgent relief to survivors of the horrific 7.0 quake that hit Haiti on Tuesday January 12 2010.

While the large Aid organizations are focused in Port-au-Prince, HERO and the Haiti Food Drive are operating through community contacts in under-served areas of immense need outside of Port-au-Prince.

With Port-au-Prince in ruins, many people have fled. HERO has been working to help in communities where they already have solid community connections such as the City of Gonaives (about 2hrs North of Port-au-Prince) bringing medical supplies to the Hospital there as well as food for distribution to local people. The Gonaives area (Artibonite Valley - Department De L'Artibonite) has seen the largest percentage of refugees fleeing the capital - thousands of now-homeless people were forced North into this region by lack of food, shelter, and water in Port-au-Prince.

When the HERO team arrived in Gonaives they were reunited with Roosveld - one of the local HERO leaders. Roosveld had been buried for 3 days under the rubble of an office building in Port-au-Prince before he was rescued with relatively minor injuries. Of the two other people trapped in that collapse, one did not survive and the other was rescued in critical condition - requiring multiple surgeries.

HERO has been supporting twin Gabrielle and Gabriella since they were 2 weeks old. They were 2 years old when the quake ravaged Haiti. Unfortunately, Gabriella did not make it. We saw and supported Gabrielle and her parents. HERO’s very own Vice President Haiti lost his one month old baby girl.

The team later headed out to villages about 2hrs out from Gonaives. In the northwestern village of Anse-Rouge HERO provided comfort and assistance to a pastor who had lost 5 of his children ages 17-28 years as well as other people in that community who had lost loved ones. The team also provided food distribution in this area.

In Plaine-de-L'arbre HERO was able to distribute food and bring help and comfort to those who were suffering and had lost family members in the quake. They met a lady in her late 20's with a broken back and a horrific neglected knee injury. This is nearly 8hrs from Port-au-Prince by 4-wheel drive vehicle. The needs are so great, and so much of that need is not inside Port-au-Prince.

In addition to its work with specific communities, HERO is currently working on funding and building a radio station to broadcast in Haitian Creole, French, English and to provide information, education, and counseling to the population still traumatized by the earthquake. They are also working on funding to build an orphanage in Gonaives.

. If you are interested, please fill out our volunteer form under the Volunteer page above. Now, WE NEED YOUR URGENT SUPPORT MORE THAN EVER...YOU MAY MAKE A SECURED DONATION THROUGH PAYPAL BELOW. Stay Tuned. Videos to come soon! On behalf of the courageous people of Haiti, we thank you for your life-giving support and love.

HUNTSVILLE, AL., By Patricia C. McCarter January 14, 2010, 11:27AM -- Simeon Nerelus, a native of Haiti who is now a banker in Huntsville, is organizing a trip to his earthquake-ravaged homeland early next week, and he needs help to get there. Nerelus, who founded the Haiti Emergency Relief Organization (HERO) in 2001, said several members of his group plus other locals concerned about Haiti's plight will leave next Thursday, but they need money to buy food and supplies for the hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors. HERO had already planned a Jan. 21 trip to Haiti to deliver hearing aids to the needy, but the trip will have a much different objective now.

"This is urgent," said Nerelus, 37, a 1998 graduate of Oakwood University. "Literally, and I cannot stress this enough, we can help save lives by delivering water and supplies." Donations can be made at haiti411.com.

Nerelus said HERO has a staff of about two dozen people in Haiti, and he doesn't know if all of them survived the disaster. He's heard from the vice president of the organization, but others have not been accounted for. "This is hard," he said, crying as he thought about his colleagues. "All we wanted to do was to help young people have a better life. "But we're going to keep going. All we can do is to keep on going."


Local native of Haiti Simeon S. Nerelus in Huntsville, Alabma is organizing trip to help homeland; donations needed. To read the rest of the article on AL.com It's time for urgent Action. We thank you!!!!!

HERO HAITI IN THE NEWS

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We are pleased to present to you our heroic supporters these news links that showcase our passionate work of making life better for families in Haiti in every season of Haitian life.

 

WAFF TV. Local organization rallies to bring relief efforts to Haiti Posted: Jan 13, 2010 12:02 PM CST Updated: Jan 14, 2010 7:12 AM CST By Monica Rix

Palm Beach Post Newspaper, Palm Beach, Florida. Shanika Mathieu, one of the HERO Florida Chapter leaders

WAAY TV. Disaster Relief Efforts for Haiti are underway here in the Rocket City.

The Huntsville Times, Huntsville, Alabama. HERO founder and Executive Director taking two teams of medical doctors and professionals to Haiti January 21, 2010

Young Haitian-Americans drop workaday lives to join relief missions By PAUL QUINLAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Updated: 10:38 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 Posted: 7:04 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, 2010

TCPALM NEWS - FLORIDA TREASURE COST AND PALM BEACHES, Shanika Mathieu, one of the HERO Florida Chapter leaders

Merrimack Hall Performing Arts Center Work To Provide Relief For Haiti Friday, January 15, 2010; Posted: 11:01 AM - by BWW News Desk Birmingham, AL

The Huntsville Times Natives of Haiti in Huntsville flying out to provide relief, search for family and friends - Haiti Emergency Relief Organization

The Huntsville Times - Relief for the Hearing Impaired in Haiti. HERO-Haiti Emergency Relief Organization

Working To Ease Haiti's Poverty. HERO - Haiti Emergency Relief Organization

A Hero for Haiti's 'destruction and despair' HERO - Haiti Emergency Relief Organization

www.haiti411.org by Simeon S. Nerelus, Executive Director December 2009

Hero and Starling Mission

HERO and Starlingg Inc had returned from the hearing aid mission in Haiti. We tested 40 people. There is a tremendous lack of services available to them. A complete hearing aid kit costs $3,000.00. But because of HERO's partnership with the Starlingg organization we'll be able to get each kit for $200.00. Anyone with a handicap is like a nonperson in Haiti. We don't want to bash the hope of those already tested. Therefore, HERO - Haiti Emergency Relief Organization needs your financial help to raise $10-20k to purchase those equipments so they can HEAR their hope into reality and to establish a technology center. Intergraph Corporation donated 60 computers to HERO for that initiative. HERO plans to go back to Haiti with the hearing aids as soon as possible. We need your help now. Remember if you cannot give $200.00, you may be able to give $100.00 or $10.00. It's time for real Action. We thank you!!!!!

HERO is 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt, child-benefit group supported by HEROES like you. Our mission is to “make life better for families in Haiti.” Tax-deductible gift may be mailed or made through our donation link below:

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HERO P. O Box 5634 Huntsville, AL 35814 (256) 665-6151 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it We thank you! Simeon S. Nerelus HERO

 
Welcome to Haiti Emergency Relief Organization. [H.E.R.O] PDF Print E-mail

During the hurricane season of 2008, Haiti was struck by two massive tropical storms and two devastating hurricanes. More than 800 thousands families were affected and hundreds died.
Several reports stated that over 650 thousands people were displaced including some 300 thousands children. Months after those natural disasters, there is a still a tremendous need for food, fresh water, medical supplies and safe housing.
In October 2008, 5 weeks after the hurricanes, HERO president Pastor Simeon Nerelus, took a team of volunteers to Haiti. The volunteers were shocked by the devastations caused the by the hurricanes, also by the tremendous lack of health care and the desperate needs of essential services facing the people.
The team was able to provide food, emotional support to 500 children and families. The U.S HERO team plans to join HERO Haiti this summer in order to continue its humanitarian efforts toward the children.
They hope to help remodel a school in Anse-Rouge that was damaged last year. They would like to provide scholarships and present a three-day conference on early teen pregnancy for its students and the community.
HERO understands the critical economic time in which we find ourselves. That is why we would welcome a financial donation of any amount so we can continue to Make Life Better for Haiti's dying Children.

On behalf of Haiti's children, we thank you.

The HERO Team!

Please join us on this urgent outreach initiative, click here.

They need HEROES!

--- Every hour, many haitian children are dying of starvation and preventable diseases reaching the age of 5. They need HEROES like you...

  • Every hour, many Haitian children are dying of starvation and preventable diseases before reaching the age of 5.  They need  HEROES like you.
 
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