Eight months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, there has been minimal progress made in the country, according to officials with Mission E4.

    But Mission E4 has been changing that, building homes and rebuilding schools and an orphanage.
    “There are thousands of people still homeless, living in tent cities with little or no water sanitation,” said Barbara “Bobbie” Curtis, retired Lunenburg Special Education teacher, who went on a trip with Mission E4 during the earthquake in January.

    Curtis is planning to go on another trip with the organization next month to help continue to make progress there.

    The Mission E4, a charitable organization, has helped make improvements on the ground in Haiti: an orphanage for 24 girls in Leogane was destroyed during the earthquake and has now been rebuilt and 24 transitional homes have been constructed as well as 50 permanent homes made of both cement and wood — materials that help make people feel safe in their homes, in case another earthquake occurs.

    Further, “all three of our schools are functioning again [and] we have a functioning medical clinic with three full-time nurses,” said Scott Long, the president and founder of Mission E4.

   
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