From Alabama-
More than 10 months after the deadly magnitude 8.5 earthquake on Jan. 12 left an estimated 250,000 dead, the situation in Haiti remains grim.
"Haiti has had a rough go of it with hurricanes in 2008, then the earthquake and now cholera," said Dave Drachlis, a deacon at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Huntsville who has made two trips to Haiti this year. The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, which has a partnership with the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti, has sent five medical mission teams to Haiti this year and a sixth is on its way.
The Rev. John Fritschner, rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Auburn, and doctors Keith Adkins and Will Meadows from that parish were scheduled to leave for Haiti this weekend.
Last month, the diocese sent a team of clergy wives on a mission trip. They worked at a remote mountain school setting up a lunch program.
In 2008, hurricanes tore down the church and school at Crochu, and Episcopalians in Alabama have been raising support for the rebuilding effort.
More here-
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/11/haitis_deep_misery_still_on_al.html
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