Pittsburgh and PA DU'ers help get some orphans out of Haiti - call your Reps

[RamboLiberal]

Lynn Cullen is covering this story today - you can hear the broadcast at Pittsburgh City Paper. http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/index

Call your PA reps especially Altmire, Specter, Casey, etc. Local Ben Avon residents Jamie and Ali McMutrie help at Haitian orphanage & are at US Embassy with some orphans who are in the paperwork system for adoptions in the US including one by their parents. They want to get permission to fly these orphans out of Haiti and will not leave without them. If you know anyone or even just make a call to help the push.

Lynn had the two wonderful women on her show last month. You can read their story here. http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/January-2009/Love-and-Haiti/

I understand CNN covered them today - so hope the push is on. I know it's just a small group but any help appreciated.

[RamboLiberal]

1. PG has picked up the story

Two sisters from Ben Avon who live at the crumbling BRESMA orphanage in Port-Au-Prince are pleading for help to get a group of children emergency refugee status so they can come to the United States.

In a text to her husband Doug, Jamie McMutrie Heckman, 30, said she and her sister, Alison, 21, were living in the orphanage's yard with the children without food or water.

"We truly can't keep babies alive ... water contaminated. This is our only hope," she texted, using a stranger's Blackberry. "I want to make sure everyone understands we can't stay in Haiti and the kids will not live if they stay. Riots will start within two days."

Several blogs are keeping track of communications with the sisters and a family friend has started a Facebook page asking people to send petitions seeking help with the childrens' refugee status to their congressmen.

Jason Klanderud of Pittsburgh said he started the page last night around 10 p.m. after speaking with Jamie's husband and her brother, Chad, both of whom he's known for several years.



Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10014/1028261-100.stm#ixzz0cbxLnA9o

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=253060986318&ref=mf&v=info

[blue neen]

2. I just talked to Murtha's office in D.C.

The woman that I spoke to said she was going to get the info from the websites and get them to Cong. Murtha.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Thank you

Even Mary Beth Buchanan is trying to help.