Hi everyone, Elena was able to post the past few blog entries from Haiti and I´m adding this one that she sent me as well. I was unable to get through to her yesterday when I called. Hopefully I´ll have better luck tomorrow. In the meantime from what she wrote in her last blog entry it seems as if she´s doing well and working hard:
It’s amazing how in the moments of crisis reality turns into survival of the fittest… Those who can defend themselves end up concurring all and those who don’t have the power or the will to fade away…
We were working at a camp in Port-au-Prince and there was a distribution of food by the UN next door. The worst part about it is that I can’t even admit that it was a “distribution of food” it was more animalistic than that. The UN, in its attempt to help the starving people in Haiti, treated them as if they were barbarians. I can only express my opinion from what I was able to witness. I was not happy with what I saw, nor was I pleased with the end results. The UN packed up their truck and left thousands of people hungry and driving away with a truck full of resources.
I understand it’s difficult to distribute food under these conditions and I may be a tad bit judgmental, but all I can do is express my opinion.
What do you think?
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