"The rainy season is looming. When you ask people who live in these places, on the streets, in tents made of pieces of tissue, and with plastic, What are they panicking about the most right now? They all have the same answer, “Rain.” Myriam's newsletter, Feb 24, 2010
"We decided to go down to the encampment and interview individuals, and get more specific information. We learned that the Mayor had arrived and kicked them off the property. He said they could move behind that piece of land, to a ravine." Holli's newsletter, Feb 18, 2010
The mission of PINP is long-term personal development through partnership, but we are also working to provide immediate need during this crisis. Go here for details or to donate.
“I am a little girl who is kind. I happy when I am playing, singing and dancing. In the morning I have coffee with bread. I eat one time a day and I eat everything I can find.” Roberline Desir
“I would like to have a bed to sleep. I don’t know how to read and write. My mother is dead and my father is far away. I don’t eat regularly. Sometimes I sleep with no food. Some other times, I eat bread with sugar water. I don’t have clothes, sandals, shoes and underwear.” Ricalande Matheus
“I wash dishes, scrub the floor, carry the water, sweep the floor. I don’t feel good because I am always working. I never have fun and I don’t like to play. I loves school, but I can’t go, I am very unlucky. I eat once a day, at noon, but the food is not enough for me.” Marie-Ange Joanise
Michelene is nine years old, and stopped going to school when her father died. She loved school but can’t go because her mother, who is sick, doesn’t work. “We cannot eat regularly. Sometimes we have one meal a day. Most of the time we eat bread, sometimes rice with salt, just white, and nothing else.” Sponsorship level: $12 per month.
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“I never went to school even a day. My mother is dead since 9 years. I am living here for 8 years with an old woman named Lisa as restavek (child slave). I am always tired and I never have time to rest. I can’t be happy because I have no freedom.” Dorce Jamine
“When it rains, filthy water and garbage fill our room. The house is leaking. There are a lot of big rats and mosquitoes. My children and I are sick. We caught cold, we have headache, and fever. Almost all of the people in the neighborhood are sick. I think it is because of the bad smell of the ravine, the dust, and the garbage in the ravine. We eat once a day and three or four days a week.” Casimir Marie Mika
“I share the food for ten people. The amount of food is never enough for us. Sometimes, we go two or three days without solid food. I am a kind woman. I am helpful, sincere, and forgiving. I would to become a beautician.” Farah Jeune
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“It is a big problem when it is raining because the roof leaks and I am sleeping on the dirt ground. I eat one time a day. Before going to sleep my mom gives me bread with sugar water, and when there is nothing I go to bed without taking nothing. My dream is to become a technician in informatics.” Rebeca Nelson
