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Wednesday, February 23

What an extraordinary day!!! My good friend Marc is from Haiti but moved to New York. He still has many family members living here, including his younger brother and cousin's. We were able to meet with them last week and today to provide food. One of them, Eddy, brought me a gift to say thank you for helping him and his family. He said that I was like an angel, and God sent me to Haiti. He said I am here to protect them, to save them, to help them and to love them. That I will be forever blessed, and he could never repay me. We gave each other a long hug, as we both cried. It was then, in that moment, that I knew exactly why I do what I do. No paycheck could ever provide that amount of joy....We were able to distribute 4 boxes of food to the neighbor, as they have 22 people living in tents. They were all very beautiful, intelligent people with the most adorable children. We got a few loose ends tied up, as far as emails and responses. There were a lot of shceduling conflicts as a result of being so ill for 3 days...we still have SO much to do!! We are hoping Al Jazeera is here tomorrow so that we can film the food distribution and they can interview us about our project, PINP and our future plans. Friday is a day for UN pounding again...we need more answers!! I have many ideas about the People In Need Partnership, and one would involve incorporating a Volunteer Program. You would have to pay for your own airfare, as we are not set up with the funding to provide that. But once in Haiti we could provide transportation, lodging, translators if needed and a postion helping us within the tent cities and possibly working with some of our partners. This, of course, is all contingent upon funding approval. I would organize the details of this new program and oversee the projects, but might share responsibilities between myself, Heather and Myriam- depending on who is in country. We have some very exciting ideas, we just need the funds and supplies to keep this all going. We want to make a Long-term recovery plan, and be able to abide by it. The worst thing we could do to these people would be to build them up and give them false hope. If you are at home and are interested in coming over here, email me! Nothing is in the works yet, so figure it would be at the very least a month before we could get this running.... Off for now
Feb 24, 2010

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