I got a text from my good friend Peter Haas, the Executive Director of AIDG about the situation in Haiti. It is a critical piece that describes how things in very short order can get worse.

After 9-11 how much money did you have in your pocket? Could you have lived off of that for a week? What if you lived in LA and it was destroyed? The port gone, no airport, no electricity, no cellphones, no ATMs, no gas, banks closed, dozens of people you know are dead, over a million people making their way into the streets of your home town. How would you feel? How long until you would grow desperate? This is the current life in Haiti, in the big cities and the small towns, unaffected by the earth quake structurally but destroyed spiritually. Bit by bit, they are unraveling at a staggering rate. Without aid distribution points, without soldiers, and with supplies going to Port Au Prince and internally displaced people coming from Port Au Prince every day – this is life in Cap Haitien, Haiti’s second largest city.

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