A local relief organization delivers critical aid in Haiti in the wake of earthquake and tropical storm

Will Judd, director of Minnesota-based Reiser Relief, was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on August 14 when a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Haiti — and two days later when Tropical Storm Grace hit the country.

“It was about 8:30 a.m. and I was on the second floor of a building,” he said. “Suddenly, it all starts shaking. I looked around and everything on the walls of the building was shaking and shaking, and it took me a few seconds to realize, whoa, this is an earthquake. And when that happened, I pulled out of the building.”

Will Good

Judd said and so did everyone else. He said everyone in the country felt the shaking.

The subsequent tropical storm, Good said, caused massive flooding and landslides in rural areas. He said that the buildings that his organization built according to modern standards did not collapse, but that many people were displaced after their huts collapsed and their roofs collapsed.

Judd recently joined Practicing Catholic radio host Patrick Conley to describe how his organization helps meet the needs of the Haitian people.

Reiser Relief is an on-the-ground organization that engages directly with religious sisters, including Little Sisters of Saint Therese, congregations of sisters and brothers, and ordinary Catholic people, Judd said, to provide education and shelter for homeless children, housing for the elderly and other programs, such as supporting initiatives Agricultural and college care. It was founded by Father Bernard Reiser, who was also patron of Epiphany in Coon Rapids. He supervised the organization until his death in 2011.

Good said that one of the organization’s priorities in Haiti today is to provide food and medical aid to “those who need it”.

“There is a lot of hunger in that area right now,” Judd said, as many Haitians sleep in harsh weather conditions. “The sisters are doing everything they can to support the displaced in the area.”

He said slums are the most dangerous areas and places where extreme poverty levels appear.

“There is a lot of homelessness … there is a lot of danger, and the gang wars are going on,” Judd said. “There are no sewage[systems]no running water, no electricity in many of these areas and in rural areas.”

“It really reminds you that we have an obligation to be stewards of the resources on this earth, as Christians and Catholics, and we really have to look out for each other no matter where they are in the world,” Judd said.

To learn more about Reiser Relief and how to help, visit ReiserRelief.org. Visitors to the site can subscribe to a newsletter and send prayer intentions.

To hear more of Judd’s interview, listen to this episode of The Catholic Practice radio show. It airs at 9pm on September 17th, at 1pm on September 18th and 2pm on September 19th on related radio 1330am.

Produced by Relevant Radio and the Parish of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the latest show also includes interviews with Amy and Tim Lemke, who discuss making a good marriage through Universal Marriage Encounter, and Mgr. Jason Gray of Peoria Diocese, who describes the process of canonization.

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