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Haitian hospitality
[This is the piece I wrote for our monthly parish newsletter about the trip. There will be more to come about Haiti.]
In the United States, the only things we hear about Haiti are that they're either starving or rioting. Certainly Haiti is deeply in need of our help, especially as the worsening worldwide food crisis affects the people there most strongly, but the wholeness of Haiti cannot be reduced to such a simple description. From the moment we arrived, we were shown overwhelming hospitality. At the guest house in Leogane, we were greeted by a beautiful and tasty dinner of rice, beans, fish, and vegetables, the work of Fenide Deravil and her helpers at the guest house.
read onNou pralé en Ayiti
We heard from our hosts in both Port-au-Prince and Leogane on Tuesday that it's safe again, so we're leaving on Saturday as planned. I've created a new section in case you want to follow just my posts on Haiti. It's likely all I'll be posting from now until we get back.
Meanwhile:
"The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year," [Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization author Lester] Brown says. "And what we are seeing now is the emergence of direct competition between the 860 million people in the world who own automobiles and who want to maintain their mobility while the 2 billion poorest people in the world simply want to survive."
(via NPR)
Also, the AIDG out of Boston has collected a good set of eyewitness accounts from the protests last week.
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