Haiti: this morning

The wonders of technology never cease to amaze me. I was up very early and didn't head straight to my computer as is my habit. Not much time to write today but it seems like I'm breathless with things to say about what is happening on the ground in Haiti. The search and rescue has barely begun, the media images and same stories are repeated over and over. Tom Brokaw has the worse sun burn. It's an international relief effort. Iceland is one of the first arrivals, along with Spain. As I pondered what to write about today for there is much to say and so very little time to say it, I went to check my email. Ah, a letter from Ophelia Dahl of pih.org, my team of choice.

So what is the real story? If coming from the Artibonnite region and approaching PAP the destruction gradually gets worse. Pull up your Google map and you see very quickly the names of the towns and though distances are not that great, the journey is arduous on any given day. You are in a new car as you witness old  and young walking up steep mountainsides. The graceful Haitian women carrying bundles like you've never seen on their heads. There are now thousands congregated in the national plaza. Tremors, aftershocks are still being felt in Port Au Prince. What do you do with rubble? Can we in partnership with the world help create a 21st Century infrastructure that serves the Haitian people? We have much to learn from the Haitians.