Co-or­di­na­tor of lo­cal mis­sion­ary group Is There Not A Cause (ITNAC) Avonelle Hec­tor-Joseph says a team from the or­gan­i­sa­tion will be leav­ing for Haiti on Feb­ru­ary 10 to con­tin­ue hu­man­i­tar­i­an work at Mon­trouis. She al­so said a film, An­gel Wings, will be screened next Sat­ur­day to mark the third an­niver­sary of the mag­ni­tude 7.0 earth­quake which dev­as­tat­ed that Caribbean na­tion.

Hec­tor-Joseph, team leader for the Haiti mis­sion, said: "We don't have any time­line. We are just try­ing to see what we could do to help. We just bought a piece of land and we are go­ing to set up a clin­ic. We are go­ing back for Car­ni­val to get ad­di­tion­al lands and to fence the prop­er­ty there. We have some pro­pos­als for fund­ing and in the mean­time we will con­tin­ue do­ing the mo­bile clin­ics."

Asked about the on­go­ing restora­tion by NGOs in Haiti, Hec­tor-Joseph said it was still a for­mi­da­ble task. Hur­ri­cane Sandy did not help the sit­u­a­tion and they did not get any mean­ing­ful aid. A lot of the fo­cus shift­ed from Haiti. Cholera was still a pos­si­bil­i­ty since they nev­er re­al­ly capped the cholera dis­as­ter and there was a prob­lem with san­i­ta­tion.

"There has been some im­prove­ment. But the mag­ni­tude of the dam­age and the po­si­tion the coun­try was in be­fore are ad­verse fac­tors in re­build­ing and re­con­struc­tion. Even though a lot of was done, it still pales in com­par­i­son to what needs to be done."?

ITNAC has be­ing do­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an work in the Hait­ian com­mu­ni­ties of St Marc, Tim­o­urette, Go­naives, Cazeau and Cham­brun. They have dis­trib­uted cloth­ing to chil­dren in La Garenne, St Mark and start­ed re­for­esta­tion projects in Go­naives.

IN­TAC al­so es­tab­lished a hos­pi­tal and a clin­ic.

Cit­i­zens wish­ing to of­fer as­sis­tance to the Haiti project can reach ITNAC at 490-0261, or e-mail them at Mis­sions@gmail.com.