Help the willing volunteers get to Haiti!

My dad is approved and signed up to go to Haiti.  The only thing holding him and the other volunteers of his additional plane is funding.  If you were wanting to donate some (or more than you already have) then you can help by donating.  The volunteers, (besides the six security officers, 1 USAID liaison, and 1 military liaison),  speak the language, and/or are medical professionals, and/or have a clean bill of health and will be construction workers.  My dad is the latter. 

I can't take 3 weeks away from my work(s) and family, but my dad can.  Let's donate something so the selfless people out there can do what we can't.  (This is a picture of him on a white water rafting trip down the Snake River last year).

Donations can be made at http://www.healinghandsforhaiti.org/ - during the payment process please click on the “Add Special Instructions to Seller” and note that the donation is for Utah Hospital Task Force.

Donations can also be mailed to:

Healing Hands for Haiti International Foundation, Inc.

P.O. Box 521800, Salt Lake City, Utah 84152-1800
Be sure to designate “Utah Hospital Task Force”.

Additional Info:
Healing Hands for Haiti has been around for over 10 years.  The group of people who are going are mostly members of my church, but it's NOT one of the church sponsored relief teams.  Our church IS providing each volunteer with a duffle bag at SLC departure.  It includes a blanket, pad, hygiene kit, a hand-crank flashlight, water purification bottle, camp towel, beef jerky, four packs of trail mix, 21 MREs (meals ready to eat), and 20 dust masks. They will be eating MREs for the entire insertion in country. Additional MREs will be provided to each task force member in country.  They plan to camp within a fenced, secure compound at the Healing Hands medical campus.


About this group of volunteers, A senior executive in the Haiti Earthquake Response Management Team of the U. S. Agency for International Development said, “What a blessing to live in a land where people so generously give of their time and talents. Your group appears to be more ‘put together’ than any team I’ve seen during my time here at AID.”

The UN relief coordinator says “This emergency is probably the most complex in history."

Do not forget that everything we will do will be done in the worst natural disaster suffered by humans in recorded history. Dr. Jeff Randle, founder of Healing Hands for Haiti, says the conditions are brutally harsh like nothing any of us have ever experienced. It will take all the faith and courage that we in the covenant can save lives and improve conditions for these suffering sons and daughters of God.

FINALLY – the cost of aircraft logistics is very expensive. Donors have been tremendous, but we need to continue this so that we can charter additional aircraft for all who have signed up but cannot be accommodated on this first plane. Every donation matters! All funds not used for travel logistics will be used for materials for Healing Hands for Haiti clinic reconstruction.
As quickly as we raise sufficient additional funds, we will charter additional aircraft. It costs about $300,000 to bring you round trip. Right now we have enough qualified people registered – and who are desperately needed in Haiti – to fill three additional airplanes.