(update Sunday, January 31 - 9.30 p.m.)
The Coordinators are working to launch Team 3. Our focus is medical resupply and making much more food available. Both are in short supply right now. This is harder than it looks but we're making it happen almost weekly. 

I hope many people have seen the NBC 30 (channel 4) broadcasts that Debra Alfarone had at OSA this morning. She did a wonderful interview with Dave Desmarais. The point was made that we've been involved with École le Bon Samaritain and Haiti for 13 years. We're there now because we've already been there a long time. AND, with our new partners (like St. John's, Stamford, St. John's, Bristol, Stamford Hospital and others), we'll be there 13 years from now, too.


I posted this story a week or so ago but Dave Desmarais is now telling it in his own words. It's so touching and compelling. Don't ever wonder about why we're doing this relief work and why we care about educating children in the Waney neighborhood of Carrefour. This is the reason! 


I'd love to share the experiences of this trip to Haiti with all of you, my friends and family. There are so stories many to tell you I could not get them all down here.  A little boy, 6 or 7, very quiet with an expression on his face that looked like he'd left already. He had cuts on his head, a swollen knee and a broken arm, but he didn't make a sound. He had been buried in a collapsed building for 3 days.  We set his arm and put a cast on it, and cleaned and bandaged his wounds.  For just 2 seconds I caught his eyes and smiled, and he grinned.