Life for the World: The Forgotten Ones of Haiti - Part 1 - 10/8/07

Very Hungry and Poor Haitian Woman With Five Children Part 1

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Travel & Events

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• Life for the World
• Haiti
• poverty
• relief

[gonaive]

Meet one poor family out of millions...and "Can we do that? please? this is not a mission , its a moment of sadness... a real mission knows the direction they are going to help thousands, not help one family that breaks your heart for that moment. Help her with cash each month and her front door will be flooded with "more" men that want to be with her and make more children..maybe you can open an orphanage in her house...wait one more year and see if she does not have one more...

[lifefortheworld]

Gonaive I have soo little time to respond to your criticism. Today I was in Cite Soleil and they tell me no one comes to listen to their problems. I built an orphanage and school in Source Matelas with with now 130 children with my own money, have done many loans, give my own money for the poor, dance with the people, lift their broken spirits, try to find jobs, give food and rice to the hungry. What do you do? Please, tell me.

[gonaive]

The financial figures that they are coming with,,,,,is tooo high...understand that these people are living on an average of $30. a month and your offering $200.00 ? Just to offer an amount per month is only giving the father extra spending money..this is not a way to help anyone in that family.

[lifefortheworld]

Excuse me, rice and beans have more than doubled in the past year. $200 a month for a woman with five children is not a lot.  She needs to buy chabon (charcoal), oil, mangos for eating and juice, sometimes pots, pans, and what about clothes sandals and many things to live. $30 a month does not cover the food if you want to try to help her and use to do it on $30 a month please come and show me because $30 is only $240 HT a month and that buys one bag 25 lb rice which cannot last two weeks.

[Donnerstag88]

"Very poor and hungry woman" / "Five children"

Anybody see the problem here?

[lproth]

Really! I just escorted a convoy of free fuel to the Jordain Hospital in Ramadi.  This is a free hospital serving the poor. The week before one of my guys had his legs taken off!! by a EFP. So talk is cheap!! Not from were I am seating.

[hiverchaud]

The people of this country should really focus on birth control instead of bringing kids into to the world to suffer. Did she not know that she was poor and could not take care of a child after having the first one? What about after the second child? Or the third? Or the forth? Or the fifth? Absolutely despicable! The foreigners who reward them for their mistakes are only encouraging them to continue the cycle poverty because they will not learn from their mistakes. Give them birth control!

[pineapple1969]

A home for a year and then what?

[yoky25]

and they dont feel sorry by bringing babies into this world

[laurentlacasse]

@jonoquimaz yes need preservatives help

[eviltreemonster]

Jeez, what a shit hole. :(

[buttercup5773]

This is a tragedy.I feel bad for ALL of them. Would like to help in anyway possible. The children are INNOCENT. They're not responsible for the unfortunate circumstances in which they were born, neither for the social, ecconomic conditions present in the country. PPL talk as if ONLY RICH ppl should reproduce. To reproduce is a part of nature. Sometimes SEX is comforting to ppl who R suffering. Birth control is not an option, she's too poor to afford it and no social agency to get it free!!!

[writejaycee]

upliftHaiti at twitter

[MrTh3rdWorld]

I am not racist but i hate white people like you...

[Tulaheyes]

When those of you who have made the vile comments, finally come to meet your maker...you will surely be refused entry. Your comments are ill formed, disgusting and racist. The world was made to be home to all...