Jim Morgan, April 14, 2021 My Sunday flight to Haiti was canceled due to tornadoes in Florida, near where I was to make a connection. My luggage has been lost by the airline. My phone wouldn’t work, and internet is spotty. I couldn’t find potable water last night.  But today is a new day. This

Eleven years ago today, at 4:53 pm, the earth in Haiti shook for 30 seconds. In its wake, over 200,000 people died.   Thousands  were left amputees,  hundreds of thousands  homeless.  All in the aftermath of a cataclysmic thirty seconds. Why? It seems so long ago — eleven years. World events  careen along , exhausting us.

In a recent NY Times article1, columnist David Brooks wrote about the importance of grassroots projects and strong community bonds . On reading it I immediately thought of the Lamp community, among whose members  are residents of Cite Soleil, our intrepid medical staff, as well as the many supporters like you who believe in our