We just received incredible news about Falee who is the precious little girl that was the subject of the update sent on Saturday. As you know she was taken aboard to USNS Comfort – The US Navy vessel that is moored in the harbor outside of Port-au-Prince. Falee has been with us for over two years with the problem with her right eye. While we speculated that she actually had an eye that was pushed back into the socket, after a two-hour operation today by an Italian doctor aboard the USNS Comfort they completed the operation in she has sight in both eyes and will have a complete recovery!!! What a miracle from God in the midst of the pain and suffering of Haiti. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS!
For those of you in Aspen, don’t forget the Wheeler Benefit of Haiti concert tomorrow night. Information is available at www.haitibenefitconcert.com
We have resumed feeding programs at the Cite de Soliel school and at the Cazeau project. We continue to struggle with the Government of Haiti which insists on somewhat ridiculous measures in clearing customs, including requiring the large “deposits” which never seem to get refunded (Mercy & Sharing is Haitian government approved NGO (nongovernmental organization) which is supposed to be exempt from customs duties and fees, but they continue to collect money by calling it something else, and rarely give us any refunds). A beach landing and temporary dock facility has been opened at Lafiteau which is about 10 miles from Williamson, but the Government of Haiti in its infinite wisdom requires all the supplies arriving there to be trucked into Port-au-Prince to clear customs and then trucked back out, which obviously exposes the shipments to looting. There have been a number of supply trucks of other organizations, which have been stuck in traffic, and once the locals realize they are stuck in traffic, they loot the supplies.
We need to urge the international community not to attempt rebuilding efforts in Haiti by going through the Government. Transparency International has ranked Haiti is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. There was a very telling article in the Wall Street Journal last week, which I am attaching as it shows the kind of dysfunction that is going on inside the government. The Prime Minster reportedly makes $2500 per month, but we all know that the government officials have their eyes on the billions of dollars of foreign aid coming into the country.
Adoptions have been completely shut down by the Government of Haiti. We find it extremely ironic that foreigners are being charged with child abduction when we know and have known for many years that the Government of Haiti, and in particular a department that I’d prefer not to mention in this update, has been trafficking in children for years. Susie actually wrote about it in her book, many of the children would have tags with numbers on them as the staff selected the ones they were going to take (only the healthy children who are easily adoptable and can be sold), and so we feel like the proverbial wooden bell but has been clanking for years but getting no attention. Susie’s book – Angels of a Lower Flight – is in its second printing and can be ordered on http://www.amazon.com/Angels-Lower-Flight-Mission-Country/dp/1416535160/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265846188&sr=8-3
One of the underlying problems in Haiti is the drug trafficking, which feeds an insatiable appetite from the United States. The US Drug enforcement agency has long listed Haiti as the top transshipment point for cocaine into the United States. I’m attaching an editorial from Sunday’s New York Times that makes the point quite well.
Finally, the powers of this dark world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms have had a grip on the Haiti since it was founded over 200 years ago based on principles of voodoo. If you are one of the people who believe there is no evil in this world, then Haiti is Exhibit A in my evidence that evil will does exists and is alive and well in Haiti. Satan prowls in this world looking for whom to devour. While I realize that many who read this may not be spiritually inclined, prayers do make a HUGE difference in pushing back the gates of the hell. One final item I am attaching for your “reading assignment” is another editorial that appeared last Friday in the Wall Street Journal regarding voodoo. We have met many voodoo priests, and for a number of years knew a voodoo priest in Jacmel who had a school with over 800 children. Susie actually went into his house once, which despite the unbearable heat in Haiti, was extremely cold. He had specimen jars with human body parts (fingers, thumbs etc.) hanging from the ceiling, and kept a zombie in his root cellar. Zombies are people who have been poisoned with a poison from the blowfish that is extracted by the voodoo priests, mixed with other ingredients (including human bones) and when administered essentially results in a pre-frontal lobotomy of the victim, rendering them unable to think cognitively, but without destroying their mobility.
Anyway, enough of the unpleasantness regarding the spiritual and structural problems to recovery in Haiti, just remember to pray in the spirit. Please continue to support Mercy & Sharing because as this catastrophe fades from the headlines and news reports, the real work only now begins. www.haitichildren.com
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