It is easy as college students to walk about their daily lives, go to class, eat in buffet style dining halls, and fall sleep in their warm comfortable beds without thinking for a second about life across the globe.
It is easy to think that the devastation in Haiti has no relevance to Millersville students. However, part of being human being, is having compassion and taking action. Now, more then ever.
Students at Millersville have stopped talking and have started doing. Hearts for Haiti is a program put together by the students in Hobbs Hall. They will be making chocolate candy to be sold before Valentine’s Day. All money raised will go to help Salem Pentecostal Haitian Church in New Holland, Pennsylvania.
Matthew Besson is a Millersville student and his parents lead the Haitian church in New Holland. His church plans to collect food donations mostly water, rice, and beans. They also are accepting monetary donations in order to send a trailer full of supplies to the people of Haiti. Most of the aid in Haiti is going to the capital, Port-au-Prince. Salem Pentecostal Haitian Church hopes to reach those on the outskirts, who have not yet received aid.
The church’s congregation has approximately 200 members with one common goal: To see their homeland get back on their feet and remain standing. It is hard to understand the magnitude of the current state of Haiti. The media, even with their pictures of countless death and endless rubble, cannot wrap their heads around Haiti.
The Salem Pentecostal Haitian Church is also teaming with other churches in New Holland to put on a concert to help aid Haiti. The concert will be held February 20, at the New Holland Recreation Center. It will start at 6:30 p.m. with food drop-off boxes and tables to accept donations. All the money raised will be donated to Haiti.
Should it be this easy to get caught up in college activities while families are being torn apart and death is occurring every day on a large scale? “We may feel broke, but we have so much more then they will ever have. Can we sit by and watch them suffer,” Besson than said.
So how can students help? Look around campus for drop off boxes within the dorms to help aid Haiti. For someone’s birthday, make a donation to help Haiti in their name. Purchase candy from Hearts for Haiti (at the table or on sale in the office at Hobbs Hall) or make a donation. Make food donations or monetary donations to the Salem Pentecostal Haitian Church. Help bring hope to Haiti.
Donations to the church can be stored in the Rec Room at Hobbs Hall. Donations in the form of personal checks should be made payable to the Salem Pentecostal Haitian Church (the church can also be contacted at 717-351-0367 or can be visited at 153 Tabor Road New Holland PA, 17557). For more information on the event, the New Holland Recreation Center can be contacted at 717-354-4747)
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