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INC Skypes With A Fort Wayne Native Working In Haiti

By Scott Sarvay
By Eric Clabaugh
June 18, 2010 Updated Jan 13, 2010 at 6:11 PM EST HAITI (Indiana's NewsCenter) - A Fort Wayne native currently helping at an orphanage located just miles from Port au Prince speaks exclusively with Indiana's NewsCenter. Melanie Wright says, “The damage is just unbelievable. There are a lot of people around here who are awfully nervous.” Amidst the devastation in Haiti, Fort Wayne native Melanie Wright was able to find an Internet connection and give us a first-hand account of the scene from her post at God's Littlest Angels Orphanage, just outside Port-Au-Prince. Melanie: I was in the office last night when the earthquake hit. It felt like the floor was swaying back and forth underneath of us. Nothing was where it should be. It was definitely a feeling nothing like I've felt before. Wright says, fortunately, no one at the orphanage was injured and the structure did not sustain any major damage. These pictures show some material possessions broken... but remarkably, nearly six-dozen eggs unharmed. Melanie: We've been getting aftershocks since the first earthquake. Some of them are fairly significant and things are shaking again and it feels like everything is moving. A lot of times it just feels like a slight vibration and there's a dizzy sensation and lightheadedness. Melanie says the situation in Haiti is so dire... it's incomprehensible. Melanie: So many of the people are living in structures that are a little more than branches and pieces of wood leaned up against another building. Haiti needs our help so badly. Haiti needs our help under the best of circumstances and this is certainly not the best of circumstances. We need your help in any way. And most of all, we need your prayers. Haiti could certainly use them.
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