Early this morning, our Haitian team loaded two big trucks full of Feed My Starving Children food and beans! We were headed to a new area called “Mon Oreg.” We had never been there but the people were so friendly. We sent in a team ahead of time to give out “Food Tickets.” This prevents people from fighting over food because they know “if they have a ticket, they will leave with food in their hands.” (Only mothers get tickets!) It is an almost impossible situation to survive here in the poor areas of Haiti. We see lots of “survival programs” on TV, but this is survival for a lifetime… and feeding hungry children every day.

Many mothers give their children hot boiling water with a few wild leaves and some salt in it. When it boils, they give it to their children to kill the hunger. But, one mother had just boiled a pot of water and salt a few days before we got there, and sadly enough her little daughter Chenya, age three, reached up to grab the pot and pulled the hot boiling water onto her face! The neighbors told her mother to put “tomato paste” on her face. So, her mother got a small can on credit and smeared it on Chenya’s face, which made it worse.

After the feeding program, we loaded up mom, Chenya, and her other baby who was 2 months old and brought them to our Love A Child Clinic. We called ahead and Dr. Barthelemy was waiting in the ER for her. They had to clean her burned face, and they did an excellent job! I got a little doll for this little “baby doll,” and her mother got a ride back to the mountains.

This is “everyday life” in Haiti! Thank you and God bless you, partners, and God bless the Feed My Starving Children organization and all those who help us get this food to Haiti!