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happened in Port-au-Prince will affect everybody in Haiti. It is a national disaster,” he said.
“Everybody around the country has a relative in Port-au-Prince,” Casseus elaborated. “In our area
in the Limbé Valley, we have many cries of people who have lost a relative, a son or a daughter [who
is] studying in Port-au-Prince,” the leader of the Baptist university said in his email, one of the first
pieces of communication to come to the BWA out of Haiti after the quake.
Casseus informed the BWA that the quake affected his university, which is located in the rural
north of Haiti and is largely outside of the disaster zone. “Our students from Port-au-Prince might not
be able to come back for the second semester at the university,” he stated.
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