EARTHQUAKE: ALTERNATIVE CHANCE SEARCH & SERVICES

BREAKING NEWS!

Alternative Chance office destroyed and Privat Precil, our pro-bono attorney, was missing. We finally heard from Privat. Dozens of students in a school downstairs died when the building collapsed. Privat has served as the pro-bono attorney for Alternative Chance since its formation. In 1999 he authored Criminal Deportees and Returned Teens by Privat Precil, Briefing on Haiti for The Panos Institute,See http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/haiti/HAI_1/Criminal%20deportees.pdf Privat's law office was located in the same place as our office at 111 Jean Paul II in Turgeau, at Cabinet Mallary.

Thank you all for your concern, emails and donations.

We have located many people and still searching for word on others. Also, we are very focused on job creation and connecting deportees with jobs in Haiti.

If you have jobs available in Haiti, please contact us. Many of our participants were educated in English in the United States, some are versed in French, some are computer literate and there is a vast amount of skills, education, and job experience amongst them including as teachers, trainers, translators, interpretors, computer repair or web creation, marketing, photographers and much more.

NOTE TO THOSE WHO HAVE CONTACTED US

First, thank you to those who have contacted us to let us know they are safe.

Thank you all for contacting us to express your concern and desire to help.

Attorneys, law students, you are amazing in your compassion for your clients and their families!

Alternative Chance/Chance Altenativ is responding in the following ways. We are open to your suggestions, help, and donations. Please stay in touch with us. This is a rough and very painful road and it will continue to be so for the next six months and then for years to follow.

Of course we must stay mobilized for the US to grant TPS as well as to suspend ALL deportations to Haiti! UPDATE: President Obama granted TPS (temporary protected status) to eligible Haitians. Please note, this does not include persons with felony convictions. If you have a misdemeanor conviction, please check with an attorney to see if you are eligible.

ALTERNATIVE CHANCE RESPONDS TO EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

SEARCH & SERVICES

We have received many inquiries from families and attorneys as to the whereabouts and safety of their loved ones or clients.

1. We are compiling a list of persons and their status through telephoning them in Haiti and looking for them in the streets and through word of mouth from others.
2. We hope to provide temporary shelter for those criminal deportees in great need of housing who have no resources
3. We will secure and/or provide medical care to those criminal deportees in need and otherwise unable to obtain medical care
4. We will continue to provide critical information such as where to find shelter, how to send money to your loved one, when flights are available, etc.

TO HELP US FIND YOUR LOVED ONE OR CLIENT

If you would like us to let you know if we get information on a particular person, then please copy and paste the below info into an email to us with the information filled in:

Name:
Age:
What country born in:
Lived in what city in the USA:
Children in US:
Address or neighborhood in Haiti:
Phone in Haiti:
Friends or relatives in Haiti:
What state was this person a state prisoner in (so we can check for a photo on the corrections website - if available)
Do you have photo of this person?
Can you send it as an email attachment?
Other: scars, tattoos, etc.

YOUR name:
Relation to person:
Your telephone:
Your email:

SEND TO altchance@aol.com

DONATE, IF YOU CAN

We are an unfunded organization. If you are able to make a donation to the work of Alternative Chance, please see below. IF YOU CANNOT MAKE A DONATION - IT IS OKAY. WE WILL STILL HELP YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONE or CLIENT.

At the bottom of our website page is a link to make a donation using a credit card or paypal.

http://alternativechance.org/ Thank you in advance for your much needed help during this very dire time.

See link on bottom of page to make a donation

CHECK BACK HERE FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR LOVED ONE OR CLIENT IN HAITI

Also check CNN videos of persons in Haiti letting their families in US know they are okay

You can add photos of your loved ones on Miami Herald as well

International Committee of the Red Cross site to look for relatives or let families know you are okay