Unity. Compassion. Love. Community. We encounter many people every day: some we know and acknowledge as friends; others we pass by with blissful ignorance. However, there are closer relations to each of these people than is visible on the surface. They all share the same bond of living in the community. On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake jolted the small, under-developed country of Haiti...
Except for the light tapping of raindrops on the windows, the dark living room at Lynne Moquete’s house was silent. Twenty students who had accompanied her to the Dominican Republic and Haiti sat, unmoving. A friend from the town they stayed in called Moquete after she helped earthquake victims in Haiti. “So what do we do now?” Moquete asked her students. “We spread awareness and make this fundraising the best it can be,” answered senior Alexis Halstenson. The students gathered at Moquete’s house...
A Haitian man once said that he is never scared now, because growing up in Haiti, his entire life was a nightmare. He was never hungry, because growing up in Haiti, his body could not miss what it rarely possessed. Haiti, the poorest region in the western hemisphere, never received adequate support before the horrendous Jan. 12 earthquake. When it occurred, it shook the lives of many, including several Haitian-American...