Good Morning Everyone,
As I write this to you, a team of 10 people with three trucks of food, medicine and 12,000 bottles of water are about 30 minutes outside of Port au Prince. They will go to the Dominican embassy and deliver some supplies there as well as a local church. Once in Port au Prince, the US military will no longer guarantee their safety. As Cristian called and told me they were leaving this morning at 3 AM, I found myself trying to talk him out of going. It can be extremely dangerous for them to drive around with food and water. After listing several reasons why I thought they should not go, he reminded me of our project in the DR and how for 15 years people from the states have given to it. Literally thousands of Americans have sacrificed their time and money to come and work at our project.
The community of Los Alcarrizos now has a better future because of this. He mentioned Hurricane George that devastated our project in 1998, and how we sent three containers full of medicine and food to them. With our newly donated water system, that allows access to clean affordable drinking water to our community, the group of 10 who volunteered to go to Haiti with Cristian stated “Greg how can we not go?” “If we don’t go who will?” (Wow, I still have a lot to learn) He reminded me of something that I always tell teams and that is, “you will be asked at times in your life to do things that you don’t really want to do”. I think the saying is true, “we need the poor more than they need us.”
I wanted to thank all of you for your thoughts and financial support; we will continue to help as long as we can. I will be back in the DR in 10 days and will be updating you with pictures and reports as I get them.
Greg Henslee
Unto International