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Haiti ..... in the beginning!

At night in Haiti arrive early. It's already dark by the clock or seven and there is little noise in the camps. It is the silence a land devoid of electricity or radios and guitars. Occasionally the flames burn in a fire shortly scattered throughout the store. The huge flow of sympathy from all the world does not seem to have reached this part of Dumornay, a Christian community that had prospered under the guidance of former Bishop Peter Dorcilien. When the earthquake in that fateful day of January, nearly killed his wife, Gladys, who was trapped in her home. The building in which he lived was also a school of taking care of educational needs about 150 of the community. Fortunately, the disaster in the twilight and the school had gone home. It lasted only forty seconds, but kept many of the children home and after the dust cloud had come over his parish Tabbarre many died. Many of his parishioners later I described the sound of the wailing of debris was left behind. The wailing lasted about three days and then stopped to be replaced by a putrid smell. In the early days were funeral pyres made of old car tires in the capital and the bodies of their loved ones were thrown on them as there was no more room in the cemeteries and no one could afford one hundred dollars of burial fee. shopping carts and wheelbarrows Old doubled as hearses, and it was just for the dead. Life praised the Lord that they were alive and held the tears, while the wounded had to be cruelly cut from the wreckage with all the instruments were on hand. Often, a butcher knife or a hacksaw oil became a surgical instrument of mercy and of amputees were just released were taken to already overcrowded hospitals such as pediatric San Damiano, where Dr. Gautier and sister Magda attended patients from sunrise to sunset slowly getting its way through huge lines of broken bodies into the triage area.

San Damiano is a children's hospital as part of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (Our Little Brothers and Sisters) International (NPH). Local workers of the hospital, nurse Gena Heragty Irish, Director of Special Needs Programs worked from morning to dark in the early days of meeting the needs of the population. By late afternoon the hospital workers headed back to the tent of the surrounding cities since most of them slept there because they had no homes left to go a. I was aware of what is going through a Dublin friend Peter Gannon, who had NPH worked as an NGO in the period just before Christmas. Some of his medical friends told me the greatest health risk was actually respiratory infections and requirement for vaccination. He also said people should remember that more than half of Haiti's population lack access to potable water before the earthquake happened. He was also aware of malnutrition is endemic and almost one fifth of a million people had HIV / AIDS. The average life expectancy on the island was 44 and income Annual little over $ 650.

I know working in disaster zones above the three things that are immediate survivors need food, water and shelter. The following are required sanitation, antibiotics and mosquito nets. The world responded in kind but in a totally disorganized. I saw how hungry people gathered around a food truck only to discover it was a forty-foot container from New York bands. Worse, bandages for burn victims and had cost more than five thousand dollars to ship and then pay to cross the border from the Dominican Republic. The saddest thing was seeing the 150 people with famine that had gathered has to lead the school grounds Miracle Restoration in another house is cold for them to the hundreds of cardboard boxes were soaked in the rainy season is approaching. He did not complain, each carrying their burden with dignity, knowing that perhaps the next container carrying food for them. But the next containers brought more bands but on the third day trap boxes of bottled water and bags of rice came to be distributed to the community. Dignity Village Haiti is overwhelming. They took with them on the ships that brought slaves from Africa to the island abandoned God, who took him as their French masters in the hit sugar plantations, which took him through the bloody rebellion of 1791 and again when they were forced to pay compensation to their former slave masters and colonizers. So they took when they went to bed every night instead emerging slums of cardboard, wire and tin. Then came the years of the Duvalier family dictatorship, tonton macoutes and corrupt government latest Jean-Bertrand Aristide. I stood outside the walls of his house in La Plaine graffiti and wondered what we now think of all this, as he sunbathed on a beach far away South Africa.

For a while I sat with Richard Morse, owner of the famous Hotel Oloffson immortalized Graham Green forever 'The Comedians'. We talk about the politics of the day and how each system finally seemed to be worse than the next. At night, Richard played in a band called Voodoo RAM. He gave me a copy of his latest CD Kite pale and told me I had little to fear from the voodoo religion. He explained it was like an extension of what was already there. He said that "the Protestants have God and the Trinity, Catholics have God, the Trinity and the saints and voodoo have God, the Trinity, the saints and the spirits. "Vodouisants believe in a supreme being called Bondy, but also worship many lesser spirits as the loa. These religions of Africa across the Atlantic made in the minds of Haitian ancestry and when he came into contact with Roman Catholicism, their supreme being is infused with our Judeo-Christian God and became the praise of the saints. What he found when he worked as a surgeon in the Caribbean ships, but suddenly afraid to be held me. These gods of Baron Samedi and St. Jacques seemed no more threatening than the stories about me and heard spirits of the local Aboriginal tribes Barkindji within Australia. In fact, later used two of their songs and O Chita Erzulie in some YouTube videos on my experiences in Haiti.

More Later in the day he met Hugh Brennan, a construction engineer working with Haven, an Irish house-building and philanthropic organizations communities for the Haitian people. Haven worked in Haiti for training, skills improvement and local employment Haitian people to build houses throughout the year. In this way, they hope to create jobs in a country where unemployment is over 50% and the chances are slim. The reason for our meeting is to Haven seek to provide some means of sanitation at the village of Dumornay forgotten. Hugh is very positive, business-like and is willing to train residents twenty-four camps provide bathrooms and required 16 workers to $ 5 per day. The problem is the shanty town has been established on land belonging to the Embassy U.S. and the leaders fear that the new infrastructure built can be seen as initiating a claim and the strength of their land and be treated as squatters. Here before my eyes is the very ideological microcosm of world political order, which stifles progress like no other. Who controls the people and what benefit for whom? Is the main capitalist country subject to market forces and restore land to residents without money or social idealism and mercy prevail shows a people who have nothing but the mixed images of Jesus and Baron Samedi in the head?. The next day, the local dilemma still exists as to make my way back to Miami airport.

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