Recovery and Reportage » JACMEL SEVERELY DAMAGED IN EARTHQUAKE

14 January 2010

Dear Friends,

Jacmel was hit very hard by the massive earthquake. Miraculously our Cine Institute team and students seem to all be alive. The town lost many many buildings and presumably many more lives. In an urgent email from our school director, Andrew Bigosinski said, ”There is no local rescue plan or capacity. No emergency food, water, blankets or medicine. The Hospital St. Michel collapsed. I joined 3000 others to sleep at the airstrip last night. You could hear the howling of people crying in town. Nightmarish. I never could have expected the ferocity of this quake.”

Our own infrastructure at the Institute is badly damaged. We are gearing up to work on three fronts: get news out about Jacmel so help arrives there too, help family abroad confirm status of their family in Jacmel, acquire and distribute medical care, medicine, food and water to the town and surrounding areas. Internet is barely working so please be patient.

See first pics of Jacmel HERE

If you have family in Jacmel send names and their details to info@cineinstitute.com and we will attempt to get news of them for you.

Port-au-prince appears to be nearly flattened and dominating the current coverage. It appears that there is no substantial infrastructure remaining to launch search and recovery and treat wounded.
The national palace, the UN HQs, the General Hospital, Medicins sans Frontier are all leveled. We are still trying to figure out just who is left that can be effective. So much now depends on how quickly the US, UN and others can get in there
and how effectively they can coordinate efforts.

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Posted By: Marie DeMartini on January 14th, 2010 7:02 pm

Francis Coppola would like to donate to earthquake relief. How can we do this? Please let me know as soon as possible. Can I send a check or do you prefer credit card?
Posted By: Jorg Badura on January 14th, 2010 7:36 pm

We want to let all of you at the institute, in Jacmel and in all of Haiti know that our hearts and thoughts are with you in this difficult time.
We feel your tremendous losses and are very motivated to help. In fact the whole world is getting together sending help in all possible ways.
Via news and donation alert blog posts in the film and photography industry we are trying to raise attention to Jacmel and the local issues there.
We want to encourage you to use your recording equipment to create news that we can feed into these blogs to keep the attention up.
Hang in there.
Jorg Badura and his studio staff
Posted By: Kathleen Burke on January 14th, 2010 7:50 pm

No matter who was/is president, the government has never helped its people. No welfare, no rescue, no social security. Yet the govt leaders have mansions and swimming pools, off shore accounts. This has been true for 100 years, excluding Estimé. Are we in the international community going to continue to support this charade? “The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere” and we leave it to the charlatans to keep profiting?
Posted By: Hermes on January 14th, 2010 11:18 pm

MES AMIES JACMELIEN, MON COEUR CEST AVEC VOUZ 100%

C’EST UN BAGAY TERRIBLE.

JE TROUVEZ TOUT VOUZ TOUT SUITE.

SALUT!!! FORCE!!!

TUKI-TUKI TOUT-JOUR ALLWAYS

MES AMIES…
Posted By: UXUE on January 15th, 2010 6:54 pm

Dear friends from Haiti, it´s unbeliveable what is happen there. Since Tuesday, we are always thinking in you. I´d like to sent you all my strenght and love.
Posted By: Bumi Sehat/Joshua Sarvis on January 18th, 2010 8:10 am

We are bumi sehat NGO, we have medical supplies, food, and capable medic/midwife.
We are arriving in Santo Domingo on 25th Jan. We will be looking for a boat to Jacmel. We are looking for a place to set up a clinic and distribute food and supplies. We also have a solar water filtration system. Direct relief international is giving us medical supplies, and conscious food alliance is giving us all the food we can bring. Do you have a need for us. We want to set up long term support for your community. We want to help you.

Please contact Joshua Sarvis or Kelly Dunn at the e-mail above.
bumisehatbali.org
Posted By: julie on January 19th, 2010 5:22 pm

Dear Jacmel- I am on my way to Haiti! I have some supplies but not many- I have heard that it’s impossible to get to Jacmel at this point. Is this true? has help started to arrive? and how did they get there? Could you ask any of the aid workers how they got there?

many blessings and our prayers are with you!
Posted By: julie on January 19th, 2010 6:34 pm

Jacmel. I need address or gps coordinates to where you need things. I have organizations that can get to you. please respond or let me know where i can go to find this information.
Posted By: Alison on January 22nd, 2010 3:34 pm

Dear Friends,
1/22/10 – US Doctors on the ground in Jacmel.twitter reports going to St. Michael Hospital.twitter is showing our doctors at hospital. We are praying and giving here in US; doing all we can.
Posted By: christian heyne on February 13th, 2010 9:07 pm

I am sending you all the most intense light and love ! I admire your strength – keep up the reporting – the MSM are messing up towards violence to justify the military invasion…bring us the truth from Jacmel and PaP! Mesi mesi!

Christian Heyne ( I worked in Jacmel 2007 at Meson Trinite, orphelina)

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