Another Haiti Blog

In my blogroll at right, I'm adding a new blog by missionary volunteers in Haiti, the Livesay Family. Right now they are getting some rest in the U.S. but it is worth it to go back and read their earlier posts about their work there, what they saw in the earthquake and its aftermath. In the post I'm linking HERE, Tara Livesay writes about wrestling with God over what their mission is to be now. She and her husband Troy have 8 children; 4 by birth and 4 adopted in Haiti. The earlier posts give a much different picture of Haiti than many of our news reports. And as a journalist, I hate to admit it but the small bloggers seem to have the stories that the big national networks just can't get.

I've also added a blog by a Mennonite couple, Ben and Lexi, who have a different perspective about advocacy and development in Haiti than we may hear from others.

This afternoon we were able to see and hear Patrick Bentrott's report on the webinar and it was very informative and moving. He and Kim will be in the US until they can finalize the adoptions of their two Haitian children, since they have been advised not to go back until that is done. They hope it will take only two months. They will be preparing to return as soon as it is safe for them to do so and the organization they have been working with, CONASPEH, has projects ready for them to help with.

It's about this time in a crisis when compassion fatigue can set in. This particular tragedy isn't going to be wrapped up soon, even though the networks are pulling up stakes from their spots at the Port au Prince airport and heading for Vancouver and the Olympics instead. That's the nature of news...and continuing struggle in a place like Haiti, or Zimbabwe, or Ethiopia, or Guatemala, or even parts of Eastern Europe can get old pretty quickly. We don't see that much of Iraq or Afghanistan either, although plenty is going on there still. Every blogger/missionary I have read in the past two months has the same plea: please don't forget Haiti. We may not be able to respond with the same intensity as we did post-quake, but the tragedy will be compounded if we abandon this already much-neglected people. So I encourage you to join me in continuing to read the Bentrotts and the Livesays and other bloggers--both of these blogs have links to many more on their pages.