AP Photo: Hurrican Noel's Effects on Port-au-Prince, Jacmal's conditions are similiar or worse.

In the wake of Hurricane Noel, which left 143 people dead across the Caribbean, including more than twenty in Haiti; Jacmel is devastated.

About 2,000 people were evacuated from homes in the southern coastal city of Jacmel, where at least 150 residents were stranded on rooftops.  On Sunday, November 4, Mambo Racine was able to establish telephone contact with medsen fey (herbalist) Loulou Prince.

"The water has gone down," he said, "but now all the gardens are ruined.  Livestock is sick from standing in the water.  No one has anything to eat, no one has any clothes and the clothes that are soaked in flood water, we have no soap to wash them!  We have no money, no food, and it's hard to get medical care.  Hounsi Amel of the Roots Without End Society has a relative who was sick and died in the storm because they couldn't get his medications for him."

Health conditions are deteriorating for everyone.  "There is an epidemic of conjunctivitis that is making everyone miserable.  Also malaria is starting up because mosquitos breed in all that water.  And typhoid, because the water supply is totally contaminated right now, and who can afford to buy purified water?"

Vodou Aid is soliciting contributions of cash, to be used exclusively for food, purified water, and other necessities for the community of Jacmel.  We give to all who need our help, but we are a Vodouisant organization and we hope to provide significant aid, just as Christian organizations try to do.

Vodou Aid is a trust fund administered by the Roots Without End Society.  Vodouaid.org is the only website authorized by the Roots Without End Society to raise money for Vodou Aid.