Pennsylvania Sisters In Haiti try to get Adopted Orphans Out

[RamboLiberal]

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.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10014/1028261-100.stm#ixzz0cbyzgBYI

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


Former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said this morning that she has secured the help of a doctor who can examine the BRESMA orphans, has spoken with an immigration lawyer and is in contact with the owners of an airplane company to see if she can get a plane for the rescue mission.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10014/1028261-100.stm#ixzz0cbzAORWi

Mary Beth is a Republican former U.S. Attorney - not well liked by Dems here - but if she can get these orphans out, then bless her today!

[LeftyMom]

1. Whoops, I hit the wrong button, can somebody rec?

Thanks.

[DevonRex]

2. Done. nt

[KittyWampus]

3. the amount of work to do and the organization required to help is staggering.

[mikelgb]

6. +1

[EmeraldCityGrl]

4. K&R

[EmeraldCityGrl]

5. Contact the media

they will be all over this.

[RamboLiberal]

7. The good news I understand is CNN did air the story

So hopefully someone in the U.S. government will pull the strings to get this little group out. BTW, the parents of these wonderful young women are adopting one of the children. The holdup was getting someone to expedite the paperwork. Adoptions, especially international are paperwork nightmares.