Multiple times a week I hear or see things here that break
my heart into small pieces. There are times where I just wish I had all the
solutions to questions that so often I get asked.
There is many times where I
wish I had a magic wand that could take away pain, suffering, hunger, poverty,
sickness, malnutrition, dirty water in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately that
magic wand does not exist.
I would like to share with you a story about a young mother
I had the honour of meeting this past week during one of our malnutrition
project outreaches in a town called Madeline.
At the young age of 16 she has a beautiful baby girl. You
could see the unconditional love she had for her little one, but she was
struggling. Her little one was severely malnourished. A part of our
malnutrition program is to conduct a survey with the parents asking questions
that will help us to understand their problems and to help them better. One of
the questions we ask is how many times a day your family eats and how much
money a day is spent on food. Her answer one to two meals a day (sometimes) and
she has no money to buy food. She gets food whenever someone gives it to her
and a lot of time she finds herself at the local orphanage asking for food. I
asked if she had access to clean water the answer, no. Our programs are trying
to increase access to these necessities of life and to increase education.
Life here in Haiti is beautiful, but daily things we take
for granted are a struggle for those elsewhere in the world.
