Haiti Cried – and you answered……

It’s not very often that on the “main” page, I blog about something that Dixie wrote but I think it illustrates a couple of important things:

• The Haiti that existed prior to January 12 is a different Haiti than exists now.
• Haiti cried and you answered.    Haiti is crying and you’re still answering…..

Thank you for answering that cry.

Tom

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I was talking to Lola’s class which are children from 9 to 10 years old. We were talking about people hurt in the earthquake and how the Image048 international community was helping people by providing medical care and artificial limbs for those people who had amputations. I told them how Haiti would need to change how they thought of handicapped people because now we have so many! I told them that before the earthquake, if a person was handicapped that they begged on the street for money. One little boy raised his hand and asked, “Why did the world not help Haiti’s handicapped people before the earthquake?” I started crying! A nine year old child asked a question that made perfect sense to him and to me. I told him it was because the majority of the world ignored Haiti’s needs before the earthquake. But after the earthquake, “Haiti cried and the world heard her suffering and came to help!”

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