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Supporting food and education programs for impoverished children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, providing hope and opportunity for a brighter future

We’re in Haiti

Posted May 18th, 2009

Caitlin and I arrived safely in Port-au-Prince this afternoon.  We head out early tomorrow morning to the food program and will also meet with the education coordinators.  I’m so excited to be here! We had a chance for a quick visit to see Manmi Det and Nennenn.  They were the first cooks for the food program back in 2000 and are close friends.  Today is Flag Day in Haiti, so the streets were full tonight with people gathering to celebrate.  There’s very little electricity, so the neighborhoods are dark.  I didn’t realize there were so many people in the streets until our car’s headlights lit them up – friends sitting on cement blocks talking on the side of the road, children playing in the streets, others walking with big buckets full of water - all completely in the dark.  I imagine that many of them ate very little today, unless they walked to the food program at St. Clare’s.  We’re excited to share a lot more with you tomorrow night.    Margaret