Ouanaminthe is safe

There has been a terrible earthquake in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. We received an e-mail last night from our UALC pastor in Haiti, that Ouanaminthe is safe. They felt it, but there is no damage. "Everyone is fine," he reported. Video of the school and medical clinic we support (the young man with the Akron t-shirt is Frandy, who has spent time with us, and you briefly see Zeke also). My husband goes again in February and is so anxious to get back--he loves the Haitian people.

People of all political stripes in the U.S. need to look hard at Haiti; conservatives for what happens when government provides nothing--not police, not electricity, not safe water, not postal service, not roads; liberals for what happens when aid from non-profits and other countries goes to line the pockets and decorate the palaces of corrupt, mini-Africa type despots and dictators year after year--nothing makes it to the people.

Update: a bus loaded with medical personal and supplies left Ouanaminthe on Friday for Port au Prince with the intention to give away the supplies and find their students who were studying in the area and return with any of their townspeople who wanted to come home. The good news today was they accomplished this and are safe!