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Do not wait to honor the work they do ...
Soon it will be two years since I worked with PINP and for PINP. In fact, who are those people of PINP? One could say that is US. This word US, that could be translated by the word family. Indeed they say it is a real team like a family ...
In a team of Foot, each in its role, the attacker plays the role of attack. The defender, and center front in a team has their role, and they are just as important as the goal keeper. It's like this family we are in PINP. We each have a specific role, and spend some time to do other things. In Haiti we usually wait until after their death to honor and talk about the work of our writers, poets, painters, and sculptors. Now, when we look at how major countries honor their artists, we do not wait until their death. The government has decided do honor them while they are still alive.
In the same way it cannot wait to honor the great work that volunteers abroad do, for a better tomorrow for the survival of the Haitian population. Not forgetting to mention that they leave their family, their friends, and their country, in order to rescue people who suffer and live in poverty and extreme poverty. Without knowing those who live in a country where everything is strange, and especially despite all the evil that is said of Haiti, they decided to come anyway.
Especially in Cite Soleil, the center of danger. After a hard day passes listening to the grievances and dreams of these children and adults, under an unparalleled hot tropical sun, they returned tired, and you can see the fatigue and dust on their faces and the apple of their eyes. Without even realizing, they do not know how much life they came to save. Simply having lent ears to these people for taking the time to listen and be heard. They are everywhere, in Cite Soleil, Jalouzie, Citron, Delmas 75, Delmas 75 Tent city, Champ de Mars, everywhere, and need to be heard.
You, the volunteers, you can never know and understand the importance and greatness of the work you do. In this sense, those who came made it by giving a hand, gave their time to this worthy cause, a better world, less hunger and children in slavery. You have shown courage and dedication to help them:
Shadia Duery
Jenniffer Johnson
Holli Griffiths and Heather
Allison Meyer
And the other volunteers, without even realizing it is allowed the volunteers, the pioneer Geoff Bederson and without forgetting Laura. They all came together for a
common cause. You who are still a little undecided to take part in this family, People In Need Partnership.
Do not remain indifferent, because the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few.
Thank you
Myriam
I regained my sleep.
We all have a story to tell, like it or not, a shared experience of January 12.
When my parents were still alive they loved to party. After each party, I walked in the courtyard to see if everything is okay, in fact there were people who were too drunk to drive home, and they spent the night on chairs. When I looked at them sleeping on the chairs I said in my mind I would never spend the night outside like them, I have to be drunk or crazy to do it...
Never say never!
The first two weeks after January 12, conditions were very critical. We had sheets but no plastic to protect against rain or other things... and each time it rained we'd all be scared and go to the garage to wait until the rain passed to come out again, because it was not safe to stay inside any houses.
We were these numbers in my courtyard: 17 women, 9 children, 1 baby and a man, my big brother. Friends and friends of our friends were also part of this community. We were of different Christian faiths, however. Every night before going to bed we united to form a prayer chain, everyone involved together, from children to adults. Even non-believers were present.
With the arrival of new people in the courtyard, my sisters and I learned how to make tents with sheets, in order to deceive the sun, but not the rain – yet it was better than not having anything on his head.
At the end of February some felt, they had to face life, and gradually they left the courtyard to try to cope with life. We are now reduced to 18 people staying there.
I became tired for me further announced that .
When I heard it announced that more bad weather was coming, and there will be rain for three days, I decided to stay in the garage. To be honest I was not able to sleep even one night in the garage, because the days are unpredictable, and land keeps on trembling.
I was the only one to have decided this. My three children say they prefer to stay with me sleeping in the garage, though in truth they themselves were afraid of Goulou goulou. That's the name children of Haiti called the earthquake.
Every night before March 25, were like years for me and my children, in the garage. My daughter Caroline was very scared. She told me, Mom you're not afraid to sleep in the garage? I told her I am a little, so every night I cannot sleep I watch you. She says, I do not sleep, I'm afraid Mom, and every time someone moves on the bed I think it's the Goulou goulou
We were 4 to sleep on a bed.
YES, thanks to the efforts of Holli Griffith and PINP All the staff and all the people of Delmas 75 tent city had no need to worry when it will rain and even when it rains.
When we put up the tent in the courtyard, my daughter Caroline was sitting next to me. She looked at me and said, Mom, now we'll be able to sleep in this tent and there is no need to be afraid of Goulou Goulou. And I gave her a beautiful smile, that smile expressed the joy of having received this tent.
You can see on the pictures how happy we are in front of the tent.
I was neither drunk nor crazy yet I spent two months sleeping under the stars. A big thank you, from the bottom of my heart to Holli Griffith for her devotion, in agreement with PINP.
Thanks you to Philip Horne and Paul Charlton of Save the Children.
We all have a story to tell, like it or not, a shared experience of January 12.
When my parents were still alive they loved to party. After each party, I walked in the courtyard to see if everything is okay, in fact there were people who were too drunk to drive home, and they spent the night on chairs. When I looked at them sleeping on the chairs I said in my mind I would never spend the night outside like them, I have to be drunk or crazy to do it...
Never say never!
The first two weeks after January 12, conditions were very critical. We had sheets but no plastic to protect against rain or other things... and each time it rained we'd all be scared and go to the garage to wait until the rain passed to come out again, because it was not safe to stay inside any houses.
We were these numbers in my courtyard: 17 women, 9 children, 1 baby and a man, my big brother. Friends and friends of our friends were also part of this community. We were of different Christian faiths, however. Every night before going to bed we united to form a prayer chain, everyone involved together, from children to adults. Even non-believers were present.
With the arrival of new people in the courtyard, my sisters and I learned how to make tents with sheets, in order to deceive the sun, but not the rain – yet it was better than not having anything on his head.
At the end of February some felt, they had to face life, and gradually they left the courtyard to try to cope with life. We are now reduced to 18 people staying there.
I became tired for me further announced that .
When I heard it announced that more bad weather was coming, and there will be rain for three days, I decided to stay in the garage. To be honest I was not able to sleep even one night in the garage, because the days are unpredictable, and land keeps on trembling.
I was the only one to have decided this. My three children say they prefer to stay with me sleeping in the garage, though in truth they themselves were afraid of Goulou goulou. That's the name children of Haiti called the earthquake.
Every night before March 25, were like years for me and my children, in the garage. My daughter Caroline was very scared. She told me, Mom you're not afraid to sleep in the garage? I told her I am a little, so every night I cannot sleep I watch you. She says, I do not sleep, I'm afraid Mom, and every time someone moves on the bed I think it's the Goulou goulou
We were 4 to sleep on a bed.
YES, thanks to the efforts of Holli Griffith and PINP All the staff and all the people of Delmas 75 tent city had no need to worry when it will rain and even when it rains.
When we put up the tent in the courtyard, my daughter Caroline was sitting next to me. She looked at me and said, Mom, now we'll be able to sleep in this tent and there is no need to be afraid of Goulou Goulou. And I gave her a beautiful smile, that smile expressed the joy of having received this tent.
You can see on the pictures how happy we are in front of the tent.
I was neither drunk nor crazy yet I spent two months sleeping under the stars. A big thank you, from the bottom of my heart to Holli Griffith for her devotion, in agreement with PINP.
Thanks you to Philip Horne and Paul Charlton of Save the Children.
March 25, 2010
Yesterday afternoon at about 4 hr 35, after I got home. I was expecting a tap- tap to return and suddenly came a taxi, which drove me home. I passed Hope hospital, where a lot of people who had accidents during the earthquake.
Then the wind brought the voice of a woman screaming to my ears: Psi, which means stop a taxi in Haiti, please put me up. The driver hesitated, but he turned aside and restarted again, but then I asked him to stop the car to take them.
They were 3, a boy, a girl and a lady with a serum attached to her arm, and supported in the air by the girl and the other arm supported by the boy.
She could not even get into the car she was suffering so much. Once in the car I asked her what she suffers. She began to tell me. Because I go days without taking anything, it opened on a disease called hernia. When sickness arises, she said, I have headache, fever, choking, difficulty breathing, and feel very weak...
She was working to get to her house because she did not have money to pay the tap tap. She suffered so, I wonder how she would get to her house, we took about 20 minutes in the taxi. The driver, seeing the suffering of the lady, he said, Why does she have to endure such suffering, it was better to die.
The house was so far, and the taxi driver decided to make a half turn. I increased the price of a taxi for him to accept to continue.
Arriving close to her house, we exchanged phone numbers so that she can call me, that I can meet her children at the office the next day, to send her some food.
So I met the three of her children this morning, gave them some food, provided by Save the Children Organization. The children were so happy when they left the office.
I have to go tomorrow morning take photos of the lady and her family. And to take her interview, to know more about her living condition, and to add it on our web site. That's what Mr. Cajuste suggested me to do.
Myriam Dejean
Yesterday afternoon at about 4 hr 35, after I got home. I was expecting a tap- tap to return and suddenly came a taxi, which drove me home. I passed Hope hospital, where a lot of people who had accidents during the earthquake.
Then the wind brought the voice of a woman screaming to my ears: Psi, which means stop a taxi in Haiti, please put me up. The driver hesitated, but he turned aside and restarted again, but then I asked him to stop the car to take them.
They were 3, a boy, a girl and a lady with a serum attached to her arm, and supported in the air by the girl and the other arm supported by the boy.
She could not even get into the car she was suffering so much. Once in the car I asked her what she suffers. She began to tell me. Because I go days without taking anything, it opened on a disease called hernia. When sickness arises, she said, I have headache, fever, choking, difficulty breathing, and feel very weak...
She was working to get to her house because she did not have money to pay the tap tap. She suffered so, I wonder how she would get to her house, we took about 20 minutes in the taxi. The driver, seeing the suffering of the lady, he said, Why does she have to endure such suffering, it was better to die.
The house was so far, and the taxi driver decided to make a half turn. I increased the price of a taxi for him to accept to continue.
Arriving close to her house, we exchanged phone numbers so that she can call me, that I can meet her children at the office the next day, to send her some food.
So I met the three of her children this morning, gave them some food, provided by Save the Children Organization. The children were so happy when they left the office.
I have to go tomorrow morning take photos of the lady and her family. And to take her interview, to know more about her living condition, and to add it on our web site. That's what Mr. Cajuste suggested me to do.
Myriam Dejean
February 24, 2010
How is Haiti? Haiti January 12, 2010. It has been a month and 12 days since Haiti was unexpectedly hit by a 7.3 earthquake which claimed thousands of victims both in human life, property and other ...
Since then, Haiti may be trying to rise from the ashes back to life. Some say that the earthquake was due to a union between Haitians.
What we exactly do we mean by union?
While people are killing each other in the struggle to have food, they are fighting, getting injured, and will do anything to get a can of food ....
How is Haiti doing?!
Those responsible, by all means try to provide tents, water, food, a place for their personal needs, something that is not at all easy.
One month, 12 days, imagine. What's the point for those living in the capital of those who have not yet had government assistance. They have their eyes fixed skyward, hoping, and they are wondering who will come to their rescue?
However, 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.”
In some areas where it rained, the children fell sick, and people have to spend the night standing until the rain passes. At Petion Ville, while the rain was falling, an old lady who was asleep is dead. And they complain about the dew that gets them wet in the morning, and the cold and then the heat of the sun when it's day.
How is Haiti since after the earthquake of January 12?
The answer remains a mystery.
Myriam
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