On the tarmac at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Rose looks on a folding chair. This sprightly pensioner from Florida landed in Haiti a week ago to help because “the Lord told us to show compassion towards the poor.” But as his six companions, including her husband which is a pastor, sent by his evangelical church in Tampa Florida, Rose has not exceeded the vicinity of the airport. “It is poorly organized. It does not tell us where to go. We still spent $ 10,000 to rent an airplane,” protested Rose.
People like Rose, Port-au-Prince now has hundreds of them. The American fundamentalist Christian groups have flocked in mass to Haiti, an island considered Catholic mission land. Before a small clinic mounted in haste, Justin Boland the NGO Act of Mercy, also presents itself as the communications director of the Antioch Temple, a Church “independent” based in Waco, Texas. Fifteen doctors said that the association supported in different clinics in the capital are invisible.
Act of Mercy, as the most fundamentalist Christian groups, focuses on the many orphanages that are lacking everything. The 135 residents of one of these institutions, the House of God’s children, camped around their building cracked. Fifteen American missionaries, mostly teenagers, camped at their sides, encumbered with heavy luggage. The deputy director of the House, Alexis Pierre-Delete, ignores the origin of these “whites” and their mission: “They promised to help us but they did nothing. I think they want to repatriate the children in the United States. ”
Scientologists in the corridors of the hospital
Tim Morris, a nurse from Open Hands Group, has seen its share repressed by the UN major health centers in the city. The reputation of the association, who said to cure AIDS through nutrition, spent the borders. In the alleys of the university hospital, they are followers of Scientology who are working on patients. A follower must affix their hands on the head of a patient’s leg broken. “We are releasing the energies that remain trapped in the crash,” says the young woman.
The proliferation of alternative medicine irritates the major NGOs. “These people account for resources that might be more useful for associations more efficient,” says a senior UN official. The U.S. military put an end to the ballet for small aircraft “Christians” that clog the airport, already overloaded, Port-au-Prince. “We do not know what these groups or who they are. They must be identified before they do harm, “Veronique Ductan storm, a Haitian physician.
In the Delmas neighborhood, the Quisqueya Christian School serves as support groups. The very expensive school, which boasts “100% Christian, welcomes in particular, the Crisis Response International which is as an” army of the end times. ” But the heavy metal door of the facility remains closed: “We do not get the press.” On its website, ICC said Tuesday in its local host part of the U.S. command in Haiti
