Our Hands and Help for Haiti  Published on  Our Hands and Help
for Haiti  Elaine Brower  Last week my daughter, Tanya, and I
embarked on a trip to Haiti.  We packed, with the help of some
very good friends, 5 large duffle bags of food and medical
supplies to carry to the people who were terribly stricken by
the January 12th earthquake, and the ensuing aftermath.  It's
very hard to put into words what we witnessed. We felt profound
sadness and saw destruction of a magnitude that cannot be
rivaled.  I realize that we are not "disaster relief" experts,
and therefore have not been around to see other tragedies, but I
doubt that anything can match what we saw when we went into Port
au Prince one month after the earthquake.   The two of us wanted
to help with our own hands, not just by throwing money at the
hundreds of NGO's and other groups who wanted donations from the
world. We felt it was better for the people of Haiti to actually
put a face to the help they wanted and needed desperately. 
Caring about humanity