Hope for Haiti
“The city of St Marc erupted with screams and shouts”
This is how Terry W Snow, YWAM’s national director for Haiti remembered the minutes after the terrible earthquake that was to change Haiti forever.
When the earthquake struck at 16:53 on January 12th 2010, the whole world watched the horror unfold. The full impact of the 7.0 magnitude quake was in Port Au Prince, the capital city some sixty miles away from the main YWAM centre in St Marc. As reports came in, Terry Snow soon realized that the situation was far worse than anyone imagined and Haiti would have many desperate struggles ahead. The international community responded with aid, the media came to report and the world was, for a time, carrying this country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, close to it’s heart.
This is how Terry W Snow, YWAM’s national director for Haiti remembered the minutes after the terrible earthquake that was to change Haiti forever.
When the earthquake struck at 16:53 on January 12th 2010, the whole world watched the horror unfold. The full impact of the 7.0 magnitude quake was in Port Au Prince, the capital city some sixty miles away from the main YWAM centre in St Marc. As reports came in, Terry Snow soon realized that the situation was far worse than anyone imagined and Haiti would have many desperate struggles ahead. The international community responded with aid, the media came to report and the world was, for a time, carrying this country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, close to it’s heart.
