I can’t stop thinking about Haiti. Through this blog I made a friend in Port-au-Prince. Every few weeks she pops online to leave me a comment, send me an email, encourage me to buy sewing books, and complain about how the electricity keeps going out. I haven’t heard from her since the quake and I keep scouring the newspaper reports for any clue if she’s okay.
The reports are so grim. The port is destroyed, the airport damaged, and all roads into the city are narrow. I gave some money to Doctors Without Borders, knowing they already have a presence there, and thinking that might make it easier to get aid in. But mostly I feel powerless. Every day I check my blog visitors and see people from Singapore, Turkey, New Zealand, the Czech Republic…and yet we can’t get food and water to this island a few hundred miles from our shore.
Here is a list of agencies that accept donations. And Arielle, I hope you’re online again soon.
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