CTI Responds to Crisis In Haiti
In the days following the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, the staff of the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission (NWHCM) became painfully aware that the food they were relying on to feed the children they served would not be arriving from Port au Prince. Ironically, they had bags upon bags of corn but no way to process it into cornmeal and flour. Enter CTI: On January 22, we had an Omega VI grinder on display at the Feed My Starving Children partner conference in Ft. Lauderdale and Janeil Owen, Executive Director of NWHCM, was one of the attendees. CTI gave him the grinder and it went to work grinding corn in Haiti the next day.
CTI's Omega VI Grinder processing corn in Haiti
Once the word got out, requests from Haiti for our grinders started coming in and now we need your help. The cost to CTI for each grinder we ship is $250. Your tax deductible* donation will help CTI send grinders and volunteer support to help heal Haiti. Please indicate you want your donation to be used towards our efforts in Haiti so it is applied appropriately.
As you know, CTI is not a "relief organization" in the normal sense, but the situation in Haiti has created a need for unique strategies to enable close to 3 million people throughout Haiti to be fed now and in the months and years to come. Our Omega VI grinders are running 24/7 at Meds & Food for Kids in Cap Haitien (northern Haiti) in order to produce large quantities of Medika Mamba, a peanut butter based ready-to-use therapeutic food, providing emergency nutrition for children and pregnant women. A request just came in from another group that works in northern Haiti-they would like a grinder to process millet. Yet another group said they could use several grinders to help feed the kids they serve. The list goes on.
Clearly, our post harvest technologies can make a difference in Haiti. We would like to offer grinders to any nonprofit organization in Haiti that could use them. The immediate need is great and the long term need will be greater still. In Port au Prince, government and aid officials are reporting a reverse migration of close to 500,000 people from the city to rural communities and outlying cities. CTI can play a vital role in healing Haiti as we can deliver the technologies necessary to provide ongoing support as a sustainable solutions provider.
Or you can mail it to 800 Transfer Road, Suite 6, St. Paul, MN 55114.
Thank you for your support.
*Thanks to a special law enacted in January, contributions made by credit card, check or cash toward relief in Haiti between January 12 and February 28 may be deducted on either your 2009 or 2010 tax return.
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A world in which all people have adequate nutritious food and clean water.
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CTI works to improve the lives of people in developing countries by designing food and water technologies that are sustainable and appropriate to local cultures, and by collaborating with in-country organizations to identify needs and to achieve widespread use of our technologies to relieve hunger and poverty.
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