A truckload of food was delivered for the 3C Project which is destined for orphanages in the south. There was prepared and fortified food from Feed My Starving Children, dried fish, corn meal, vegetable oil, canned goods. This is a godsend for the small orphanages on the southern coast. We store it and distribute it for 3C.
Great to see this delivery!
ReplyDeleteDear Fr. Marc, I found your blog a couple days ago, and wanted to let you know how very very important I think it is. It is an avenue for some of us to have a real picture of what is going on in one place in Haiti. Many of us are looking for where to donate, how to help, and for an understanding of how people, ordinary people are working in and to help their communities. It is also documentation of things that probably don't come to light elsewhere... I am thinking especially about the situation of the prison, the overcrowding there. You wondered if posting more pictures would be inappropriate (voyeuristic, you wondered). "NO!" I want to say! Rather those pictures are very important documents. They represent needs that can not ordinarily be met without their reality being seen, though you yourself are seeing and responding as best you can. Pictures document what you have to say, and may make it round to others who know how to help more.
ReplyDeleteI am not a very clever person, and have few resources, living well-below poverty line myself. But I can recognize the difficulties of the guards, the overwhelm of the impossibility for them to figure out how to improve the situation, and under such duress themselves. I am grateful that you, outside their box (outside the box of thinking that a given situation locks us into), have been able to bring food to the prisoners, as well as compassion and caring. I am wondering if someone even further outside the box, with some experience around helping in extreme emergencies, and with a sense of responsibility for the rights and well-being of prisoners might help identify possible avenues that would allow some prisoners to be put into other situations, (say doing community service? and residing elsewhere for the time being?)--maybe someone more clever than I could help the guards identify better options for now. Anyway, I wrote to Amnesty International about what you have shared in your blog, and asked if they might, as a respected international organization familiar with prisoner issues and experience in emergencies, help come up with some ideas to make the situation more workable for all.
Like I say, I am not very clever, but taking something very important that you have shared, and sharing it with an organization used to acting quickly in related urgencies, well, maybe they can help and maybe they can't, but if they could and I didn't ask, that would be unthinkable.
I seem to recall also, from my earlier reading of your blog, that you discussed the situation of one boy who'd been given over to work in the fields, by a parent who would rather see him in that situation rather than starve, and who escaped from there and is with you now. I have a very slow laptop and dial-up connection, so I am not going looking for that blog entry now, but it awoke memories in me of the issues of virtual slavery under which some people toil for lack of other options in Haiti. I want and need to know more about that now, and am thinking it is time for more of that story to emerge in the larger context of rebuilding in Haiti, and in the context and developing strategies for addressing the needs of everyone who is suffering so much. So I was glad, as a start, to have recollections about that situation in Haiti reawakened in me through your blog. I am also very glad that I now know of a place where children don't have to have parents or money or parents with a livelihood to belong and thrive.
I was glad, in my looking for information about what is being done by who in Haiti, that I found myself at the blog of someone who is, with others, openly focusing on all the needs, of all the community, and who is reaching out with help to all, or to those most in need.
And thank you so much for taking the time to write about it.
Joanne
Yeah! We've been praying for food!
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