Nelson Area Students Safe
By 250 News
Sunday, January 17, 2010 02:05 PM
Prince George, B.C.- It won’t be long before a group of students from the Mt. Sentinal Secondary School in South Slocan, near Nelson, will be heading home from Haiti.
The 17 students and their 7 adult chaperones had arrived in Haiti less than an hour before the 7.0 quake struck the country.
They had gone to Haiti to do some humanitarian work, but found themselves at ground zero of a catastrophe.
The group is at the Canadian Embassy and is expected to return home either by a Canadian Forces flight, or Air Canada.
The $10,000 dollars they had brought with them to carry out their work was stolen from their compound about 75 kilometres outside of Port-au- Prince, but the students pooled their personal cash and paid $2,500 dollars to buy 4 thousand pounds of rice, which they distributed to those in need.
While none of the students or adults was physically injured, they have reported they have witnessed some horrific scenes and will likely need some counselling to help them deal with the brutal scenes they witnesses.
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Posted by: He spoke on January 17 2010 4:39 PM