After hurricane Matthew on the island of Haiti, and in particular the
town of Jérémie, the collection of sending food and medicines to meet
the emergency continues.
This is what Father Antonio Menegon, MI told
Fides, who along with Fr. Massimo Miraglio, who works in the Camillian
mission of Jérémie, have planned important projects to give concrete
answers to the population.
Among these there is the restoration of mobile clinics to give relief to
the hinterland populations that are most affected, by means of a first
phase distribution of drugs and vaccines and a second phase of
assistance.
There is also the plan to build villages to give a home to
families that the hurricane took away and the reconstruction of an old
people’s home.
"What is important - continues the missionary - is the
construction of wells for drinking water, to restore what was destroyed
by the hurricane in our mission".
"There are many children who died during the fury of the hurricane, many
others will die from cholera due to lack of drinking water; their life
belongs to us, they are our children. The good we do them we do it first
of all to ourselves, because every time we save even one human life we
give a sense to our own life".