Charlotte-area nonprofit planning earthquake relief | WFAE 90.7

Sabine Guerrier says a call from a friend in Haiti on Saturday morning broke the news of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in her home country.

“I was in complete shock,” Guerrier said.

But she said after taking some time to cry, she sorted herself out and began working on a plan to support the relief effort.

“Show yourself. We will go back to Haiti. We will help again,” Guerrier said to herself. We will fight our way. We will go out. It’s tough and we get hit over and over again. But we won’t stop trying to get up until we finally get back on our feet.”

Guerrier is the founder of Haitan Heritage Site and Friends of Haiti, a nonprofit organization that supports the Haitian community in North Carolina — a community of about 5,000 people, according to the Immigration Policy Institute.

On Saturday, she says she started getting calls from Haitians in North Carolina. Callers expressed disbelief, asked for help, and offered their support.

Guerrier founded the nonprofit organization in 2009 after spending two years in Haiti working as an administrator at a local hospital.

In 2010, after the catastrophic earthquake in her home country, Guerrier traveled with about 35 volunteers from North Carolina. Since then, she says, the nonprofit has been planning trips to Haiti nearly every year.

Haitian Heritage and Friends of Haiti sent about 35 volunteers to Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. Since then, they have been traveling every year.

More than a decade later, Guerrier says she is using her experience on these trips and time spent working at a local hospital in Haiti to best support relief efforts. She says she doesn’t want to make the mistake some big corporations make.

“A lot of big organizations donate what they think Haitians need and never ask what Haitians really need,” Guirier said.

She says she is in daily contact with government officials, leaders of local organizations and other people on the ground to find out what they need.

She said, “Although, yeah, I’m Haitian, I don’t live in Haiti, I live in the United States. I can’t say I know what they really need.”

Haitian Heritage and Friends of Haiti is currently collecting donations, hygiene kits, buckets of non-perishable food and water, and buckets with cleaning supplies. She says the organization bought a school bus full of donations and shipped it to Haiti.

Guerrier says she is also planning a two-week trip to Haiti in early September. She says the organization is looking for volunteers to go on the trip and help raise funds.

She says the organization will provide supplies directly to people on the ground to ensure that earthquake victims have supplies.

On Thursday, Haitian Heritage and Friends of Haiti will hold a meeting to discuss relief efforts at Myers Park Baptist Church at 7 p.m.

To volunteer for relief efforts:

Contact Haitian Heritage and Friends of Haiti by phone at 9903-704890 or email at [email protected]

For information on travel and donation groups, contact Thomas Hall by phone at 704-574-0746 or email at [email protected].

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