What I do every day, January 8th

While I don’t want to take pictures, we just received 13 refugees here from the massacre in Nazon, Port au Prince, a few days ago. These people had family killed and houses burned. They were here for some help to relocate them out of that area. So we gave each an envelope with enough money to get them to the provinces, and also small provisions for food. Most of these are old people, one is blind, some are limping from minor injuries. Life is too tough for them.

A mother also came, with a one and a half year old child with hydrocephalus. Her head is huge already. She is a very poor woman who cannot affort the surgery for her child (a shunt), and the hospital that could do that surgery was just recently burned (Bernard Mevs Hospital.)

Again, we give some provisions of food and a little but of money, and we start the hunt to see where those surgeries might be done in Port au Prince now, and we start collecting for what it will cost. The mom is truly heroic, and the little girl is just trying to be a little girl, but her head is very heavy for her.