CHAP Board Meeting 02/15/2010

Members of the Board met on Feb. 15 to discuss developments, progress and plans for continued support and relief of the parishes, schools, and nutrition clinics under the direction of Pere Val and Carmel. During a phone conference,the Valdemas reported that all of the students and professors are alive, but the schools will be closed for another month. It was noted that all of the buildings in PV’s parishes have survived the earthquake, with the exception of the church in Gorman. Our two water/sanitation projects are intact and providing life sustaining safe water.

Several members of the Board have been directly involved in efforts to collect medical supplies and crutches to be delivered to Haiti. Contacts have been made to deliver via both private planes and humanitarian airlifts.

Since the earthquake, CHAP has raised over $35,000, which will be forwarded to Pere Val in installments. The CHAP Scholarship Program has raised sufficient funds to send $6,000.00 per month to pay for teachers salaries at the schools for the remainder of the school year. Letters have been sent to all of the benefactors of the Scholarship Fund, to request their continued support in this crisis to sustain the educational system.