This is Tracie, a little child here in Haiti. You may think she has just been “shopping for her mother,” but look again. Those are empty plastic bottles. Tracie is just one of the hundreds of children living and trying to exist in one of Haiti’s largest garbage dumps, Truttier. Imagine your parents “moving into a garbage dump to live,” because your area, Cité Soleil, has so many bandits with guns!

Tracie has red hair, due to malnutrition, and she is very thin. These children who search through garbage for trash to sell, or for things to eat, may only get one meal a day, and you could never call it a “meal.” I know that today is Sunday and you will probably be going out to eat in a nice, clean restaurant, or maybe eat at home. How blessed you are!

We need to count our blessings today and remember to pray and give, and to “go the extra mile” to help the poor today… because, “God has blessed us, and we don’t have our children searching through the garbage dumps for food.” We are blessed, indeed! Sherry