Haiti Struggles For Footing Amid Storms, Unrest

From Grant Swanson
This heart wrenching article discusses the turmoil caused by the recent hurricanes in Haiti. According to this article, thousands of people have lost crops, homes, their lively hoods. In a Country that is already recognized as one of the poorest in the world, little Haiti just cannot handle this devastation. A teenage orphan boy was interviewed. He wishes to one day be an architect and build houses for all the people who are homeless and displaced in Haiti. The boys father was unable to support himself and his son, so that is why the boy lives his orphanage with 45 other boys packed in 2 rooms. And the worst part is that the 45 boys in the orphanage are only scratching the surface of all the homeless children and adults in Haiti, especially after these catastrophic tropical storms. The biggest problem is the current inflation on foods. Simple products such as rice and beans have had dramatic increases in price. This is something I think we can do to help as a class. I know we are going to do a group project in this class...maybe we could hold a campus wide food drive to send to Haiti. As the article states, Haiti is only an half an hour flight from Miami. It is at our back door and we should do something. I also highly recommend to anyone interested in the current predicament of Haiti to look into the service trip North Central College is sending this interim to Haiti. If I could go, I would go in a heartbeat. You should all look into it if this is something that weighs on your heart! Thank you.