A Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing has been signed be­tween the non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion, Mus­tard Seed Com­mu­ni­ties (MSC) Ja­maica and HaitiChil­dren to pro­vide ac­com­mo­da­tion for 59 se­vere­ly dis­abled or­phans, as well as 13 care­givers, from Haiti.

The group from Haiti is ex­pect­ed to ar­rive in here on Thurs­day and will be housed at the new­ly built Eph­esus Vil­lage, Ja­cob’s Lad­der, in the town of Mon­eague, in the north­ern parish of St. Ann.

In a re­lease, MSC not­ed that the arrange­ment is ini­tial­ly for two years and fund­ing will be pro­vid­ed by HaitiChil­dren’s var­i­ous es­tab­lished donors.

Fa­ther Garvin Au­gus­tine, Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor of Mus­tard Seed Com­mu­ni­ties In­ter­na­tion­al, said fol­low­ing a se­ries of meet­ings with gov­ern­ment agen­cies, MSC was grant­ed per­mis­sion for the chil­dren to en­ter Ja­maica legal­ly and to get the nec­es­sary care in a safe en­vi­ron­ment.

Founder and CEO of the non-prof­it HaitiChil­dren, Susie Krabech­er, ap­proached the lead­ers of Mus­tard Seed Com­mu­ni­ties in Ja­maica, in the wake of the gang war­fare which has dis­rupt­ed the lives of the Hait­ian peo­ple, es­pe­cial­ly the most vul­ner­a­ble in the so­ci­ety. She not­ed that be­cause of their dis­abil­i­ties, the chil­dren faced mount­ing chal­lenges pri­mar­i­ly be­cause of the es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence in Haiti.

“These chil­dren, who had been liv­ing un­der the care of HaitiChil­dren, were forced to leave the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s fa­cil­i­ty when grow­ing un­rest made it un­safe for them to con­tin­ue liv­ing there. This re­sult­ed in the chil­dren be­ing left with­out ac­cess to vi­tal sup­plies and ur­gent med­ical at­ten­tion,” she not­ed.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica, Mar. 31, CMC –