Our college is affected by the disaster that befell on Port-au-Prince and its surroundings. Many students are without news of relatives affected by the disaster.
The husband of a teacher, firefighter specializing in trenching work, left this week with a group of Departmental Service Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of Guyana. Communication difficulties with Haiti makes these family situations very stressful.
News of these rescuers are available on the blog created for this occasion by the SDIS. Here is the group of firefighters Guyana accompanied by the Ambassador of France in Haiti, on arrival in Port-au-Prince.
Go visit this blog and feel free to leave a message of encouragement to our brave rescuers ambassadors.
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distress and anxiety are high in Guyana to the extent of damage reported by the media.
The images and stories are trying to realize the immensity of the destruction suffered by the population in the greatest destitution.
Click on image to access the site of Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste
Here also Blog a French journalist Francois Bonnet Médiapart, bringing together video shot by Haitian students about the tragedy that has also touched the cultural capital of Haiti, Jacmel.
As it shows starkly that the consequences of such a calamity
Cayenne - French Guiana - Sunday, January 10 - 10am : a solidarity march and thanksgiving was held at Brutus Bridge Consulate of Haiti in Cayenne, the appeal of Radio Mosaic. The crowd, small, has accompanied the ignement everyone has pain.
>>> Click the image to access photos of the event
( copyright: nansenet.e @ orange.fr )
Few people moved. The doors of the Cathedral of Cayenne, rue Francois Arago, remained closed!
>>> Click on photo to access a slide show on the event.
As said a Haitian proverb, quoted by René Depestre ,
"the pencil God has no eraser"
The colors of Haiti, blue Freedom of red and the Equal , were worn with grace and dedication. The pain contained.
The images and information we receive from the earthquake are alarming, the damage.
>>> picture given by the newspaper's website The Haitian Nouvelliste
The capital, Port-au-Prince is not only affected.
Below is a chart of the UN , released by the AFP presents the geography around the epicenter of the earthquake.
>>> Click on image to access the website of the UN .
Check before the Consulate of Haiti in Cayenne, the crowd knelt before the closed gates of the Consulate of Haiti ...
modestly, it invoked its emergency the Lord arms to heaven.