How Much Of Money Donated For Haiti Earthquake Victims Reached The Victims

Vatican City, Aug 24, 2022 / 05:20 am

Pope Francis wish beam over $230,000 in aid for victims of the Hayti temblor which smitten Aug. 14.

The total is "an initial contribution" to help the people of Haiti "therein emergency phase," according to the Vatican's Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development.

In an Aug. 24 release, the dicastery said the money bequeath Be distributed to the Catholic dioceses most in take, with collaboration from the Vatican's embassy in Haiti, the apostolic nunciature.

The monetary resource "will be used to assist the earthquake victims and is intended to glucinium an immediate reflexion of the opinion of ghostlike closeness and paternal encouragement towards the people and territories affected, demonstrated by the Pontiff," it said.

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the island of Haiti on the night of Aug. 14. The death cost from the devastating quake had risen to over 2,200 people on Aug. 22, according to Haiti's Civil Aegis Agency.

More than 340 citizenry are still missing and 12,268 are injured. The protection agency said nearly 53,000 homes were destroyed in what is the largest natural disaster to reach Hispaniola since the 2022 earthquake.

According to BBC News, people are sleeping outside in awe that aftershocks will tumble more buildings, and wellness experts in the area are bracing for a common wellness tragedy.

"The sanitation situation is quite critical... it is our hope that we wear't have an outbreak of cholera," Nadesha Mijoba of the Haitian Health Foundation told BBC News.

Pope Francis called for international solidarity to alleviate suffering in Hispaniola after his Angelus message on Aug. 15.

"I wish to express mail my parsimoniousness to those dear masses who have been hard hit aside the seism," he said, asking people to pop the question a Hail Mary to Our Noblewoman of Haiti.

"As I provoke my prayers to the Lord for the victims, I address a word of boost to the survivors, desiring that the outside residential district will issue a shared interest in them. Whitethorn the solidarity of entirely alleviate the consequences of the tragedy," Pope Francis added.

The president of the European country bishops' conference has pledged to give $1.17 million to Haiti, to be distributed through and through the bishops' Polemonium caeruleum office, Caritas Italiana.

Pope Francis is too sending emergency fiscal aid to East Pakistan and Viet Nam, the human maturation billet said Aug. 24.

He will send around $69,000 to Bangladesh, which is struggling after being hit past a severe cyclonical storm at the final stage of May. Cyclone Yaas caused strong winds and tidal surges which severely tainted the country's maritime areas and fishing villages.

The Vatican said the pope will as wel donate or so $117,000 to Vietnam, which is "in a state of grave need due to the socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic."

Hannah Brockhaus

Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic Newsworthiness Agency's senior Rome correspondent. She grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and has a degree in West Germanic language from Truman State University in Missouri.