by John Freund, CM | Jan 28, 2010 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Message from Eduardo Marqués Almeida, who lives in Haiti and serves as International Territorial Vice-President for South America Equatorial North, Eduardo Marqués Almeida, (24th January, 2010) Dear Father Gregory and José Ramón, I hope you are well. Yesterday, for... by John Freund, CM | Jan 24, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
I am back from Haiti exhausted more emotionally than physically based on the grief and despair that was on the faces of everyone I know. I assume you know that Stephanie and I were in Cap H. when the earthquake hit. The force was so strong in the north that I feared... by John Freund, CM | Jan 23, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News
Film-maker Gerry Straub (whose story in itself is well worth knowing – San Damiano Foundation) took this video four weeks before the earthquake and recounts his experience in in the first days after the earthquake. by John Freund, CM | Jan 20, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
The Provincial Treasurer of Puerto Rico writes “Crossing the frontier between the Dominican Republic and Haiti is not safe anymore.” “Today we add the strain of another high-grade quake in Haiti” “group from St.John’s University, NY, is... by John Freund, CM | Jan 19, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, Evangelization, Featured, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Scott Fina offers a contrasting view to David Brooks recent New York Times editorial about the role of poverty in Haiti’s suffering from its earthquake, recently circulated over FamVin. Below he writes “My point? Haiti (like Katrina) is indeed much more a story...