A Denman Appeal
Hello Denman! As Christmas is coming I wonder if you think at times of how lucky we are. How grateful we feel.
With that in mind, I would like to tell you about Ruth Toussaint Kirwin and her Haitian community in the Dominican Republic and how they would thank you for some very needed help.
There are hundreds of thousands of Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic now and the stresses on that country are enormous. Similar to the U.S. and Mexico but perhaps worse, there is growing resentment and strife of a people who speak Creole, not Spanish, people who fled from a failed country to find they are not accepted, without basic services like health care, their children without education.
The problem really is that the scores of children Ruth provides for are caught between two countries, and having a home in neither. So they will need to have Haitian citizenship bought to obtiain Dominican Visa!
The worst thing that could happen is that they are sent back to Haiti. A pregnant refugee could go to a Dominican hospital to give birth and be deported from there, back to a place where she is no one and has nothing…
So we are encouraging you please to help Ruth and the Haitian children by a donation of any size at all. With lower material costs in the Dominican Republic a little of your kindness will go a long way.
Ruth will have a donation jar at the General Store and the Guesthouse. We are asking for the gifts before she goes back there on Jan.16th.
Ruth’s email is:
Her phone number: 250-650-2353
