On Friday, 4 huge truck loads of food, ie 50 pound sacks of beans, soyblend flour, etc arrived and was placed in the depot here at Center of Hope. Plans are for this week to begin distributing them in the villages. Later in the week I will go with one of the trucks and take pictures to post.
This morning one of our trucks left for the area called Moron. When they stopped at the police checkpoint going out of Jeremie, the truck was mobbed and all the food stolen! Everyone is desperate for food! It was such a large mob that the police didn't intervene. Luckily, none of our employees were hurt. It is now probable that our trucks will need UN or military escorts to prevent this from happening again.
Everyday I hear new stories of the heartaches caused by the earthquake. I spent over an hour walking with a 2 month old baby, trying to put together a plan to feed this child. His father was killed in PAP's earthquake and the mother "ran off", a term the people use to mean someone who has become mentally unstable and unable to attend to a child. The baby cried and cried, he was hungry! Well, we finally got together a plan for the child to receive needed milk/formula. The director of the center said it is harder to get wetnurses that are not relatives because of the people's fear of HIV/aids. Much education still needs to be done.
As a point of interest - Haiti does not change to daylight savings time, so our time is now the same as time in the Central Daylight Savings Time.
Well, it is 6:30, completely dark, but still 84 degrees. I will probably be in bed by 8! Of course, it is light just before 6 AM and everything again comes to life! (the roosters start at about 5).
More next time. Don't forget to pray for the people of Haiti! God bless. Mary Ann
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