HAITI RELIEF

PLEASE HELP ALL YOU CAN!

LOCALLY - Urgent Request for Haiti Disaster Supplies

The Littleton United Methodist Church will open our fellowship hall (next to the Littleton Post office) from 11AM till 2PM on this coming Sunday Jan 17th as the formal drop off location. We will then transport all the collected items to the MERCI center the same afternoon. If you have any questions or concerns please call: Sherman Merchant 586-7866, Richard Sherman 586-4832 or our church 586-5385.

Immediate medical supplies requested from physicians on the team are:

    * Plastic or Fiberglass Casting
    * Suture 3-0,4-0 Nylon
    * Suture Instrument Kits
    * Betadine
    * 4×4 Dressing
    * Roll Gauze
    * Web Roll for Casting
    * Saline IV and Irrigation
    * Injectible Pain Medication
    * Injectible Antibiotics IV and IM Rocephin, Ancef, Kflex
    * External Fixture
    * Tools to put the in (tool boxes)
    * Traction Bows and Pins

Non-medical needs include:

    * Blankets
    * Sheets
    * Towels
    * Wash Clothes
    * Health Kits*
    * Food
    * Tarps

*A Health Kit contains specific items:

    * 1 hand towel (15” x 25” up to 17” x 27”)
    * 1 wash cloth
    * 1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket-sized)
    * 1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
    * 1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz and up)
    * 1 toothbrush (single brush only in original wrapper; no child-sized brushes)
    * 1 large tube of toothpaste
    * 6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages

All items should be placed inside a sealed one-gallon plastic bag. No other items should be included in the Health Kit.
  NATIONALLY  

Text HAITI to 90999 donates $10 to the American Red Cross. The $10 deduction will appear on your next phone bill.

Text YELE to 501501 donates $5 to a fund that (Haitian-born) WYCLEF JEAN set up. Wyclef has already raised over a million dollars to help the victims.

Red Cross: Go to www.redcross.org, or call 1-800-RED-CROSS.

Salvation Army: Go to www.salvationarmy.org

Doctors Without Borders: Go to www.doctorswithoutborders.org or call (212)-763-5779.