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Haiti Relief Efforts Bring Hope For Haiti, Fundraising Telethon Unite Nations And Give Meaning to Haiti Orphans

I have just returned from our church which is a designated Red Cross Haiti Relief Site. We have been working in shifts for days, requesting, receiving, sorting, boxing, labeling, stacking and loading containers. I am not tired. I just want to catch a few winks and go back to a very meaningful task in the morning. News reports energize, and refuel my efforts to help Haiti.

Thank you to each and every person, adult, young person and child who have been working on relief sites around the world. Tonight as we were going about this labor of love for our brothers and sisters in Haiti we were also watching the Hope for Haiti Fundraising effort on television. It was great to see the megastars unite to solicit support for Haiti. Please do not think that what you are doing is insignificant. Please do not give up. Get more volunteers to help. Keep talking, keep encouraging each other.

The people of Haiti are strong. They are resilient. They are special. They shall overcome. They did nothing to deserve this. They are no worse than any other nation. They are not inferior to other peoples. We have seen and heard about brave efforts of moms to save their babies, of young people trying to save children and of elderly grandparents searching and finding their grandchildren.

Please do not be blinkered by the looting that you are seeing on television. Please do not be fooled by the chaos that you are witnessing. Do not stop giving. Do not let politics and ideology get in your way. Enough is not good enough. We have to do more for the people of Haiti. Haitians have to know that we the people of the world care for them. They have to know that we will not forsake them in this crisis.

 

Please inform people not to give trash, junk or tattered clothing to Haitians. You will be surprised at how much time we are wasting sorting out bad donations. It is not so much what people are thinking of people in need but what people are thinking about themselves for giving such insulting donations infused by their graceless pinnacle sentiments (GPS). I tried hard not to say something negative but I had to say this after a night of tossing and turning because of those broken, smelly shoes, tattered clothing and dated food stuff we had to sort through. We literally have tons of black bags and boxes to sort. Please no junk, no broken toys, no torn clothing. Nothing that you would not use for your loved ones.

Let us break the back of this crisis with our sustained relief efforts. Let us not break the soul of Haitians with our indolence and indifference. Please do not listen to the negative comments and opinions of the eternal pessimists. This is no time for political games. This is no time to pause and to rethink the help that we can give. The people of Haiti are desperate. They are hungry. They have been hurt. They have been shocked. Fear is a factor. We can help them overcome. We can worry about what we did later. Right now we need to save and serve the people of Haiti.

Search and rescue efforts keep coming up with surprises. More and more survivors are found. Let us not be found wanting. It is indeed great to see the president of Haiti easing restrictions in order for help to be effective. It is great to see America ease restrictions in order to help Haiti. This is not about us. This is Haiti's hour; finally Haiti is taking center stage in this world. I believe that this is the rebirth of a nation founded not by slaves but founded by free people, brothers and sisters and a caring community.