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Desperation deforms judgment, and not just among victims. Thus we meet missionary Laura Silsby and her flock, who in the face of so much suffering set out from Boise, Idaho, with a trailer full of children's clothes and a vow to help Haiti's orphans "find healing, hope, joy and new life in Christ." "Our hearts were in the right place," she insisted, but her head was somewhere else entirely, and they all wound up in jail. We know a bit more now about her regard for the niceties of law and protocol: unpaid debts, civil lawsuits, a house...
...feed a hundred people, Mother Teresa used to say, then feed just one. There are slow-motion disasters everywhere. The Red Cross is doing heroic work in Haiti, but it is also doing it around the corner, when a house burns down. It may not feel glorious, but often the greatest good is accomplished quietly, invisibly. The choice is not either-or. We can give globally and help locally. Either way, the same principle holds in helping as in healing: First, do no harm...
When I was in Haiti covering the aftermath of the Jan. 12 monster earthquake, friends from around the world e-mailed or called to ask what it was like. Was the damage as extensive as it seemed on TV? How were the survivors coping? The question I was asked most of all: What are they doing for food? Many friends didn't believe my answer: "They're eating cookies...
...time I left Haiti, my belt was two notches tighter. But I wouldn't recommend the cookies as a weight-loss regimen. For starters, they taste like cardboard. Literally. Even Nicole Menage, the WFP procurement director, admitted that the cookies are "probably not extremely delicious." I had been especially unlucky in that my batch was made in Ecuador. Menage said the next Haiti-bound shipment would be coming from Turkey and have a bit more flavor. Alas, it's vanilla...
...first downpour of Haiti's rainy season came on Feb. 17, Ash Wednesday, a day when Christians ponder their mortality. Most Haitians are Roman Catholic, but they hardly needed the reminder - not after the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 of them. Marie Chantal, a baker who is living in a vast and squalid shantytown on the Champs de Mars park in downtown Port-au-Prince, says the rain that leaked through her makeshift tent on Wednesday night made her grieve more for the two children she lost in the quake when their house collapsed. To comfort...