Alice Smeets | Blog

July 12th, 2007 at 07:04 (Haiti)

I already wanted to write a post yesterday, but there was a problem with the electricity like every day. Half of the day you don’t get electricity. That’s a bit annoying.  Yesterday was a great day. We have been in Cité Soleil the whole day. It was hot, we had nothing to eat with us, but it was worth it. The one guy, that we’ve met the day before was with us and talked so easily to all the people. With him on our side, I could take pictures from everyone without that the people got offended. When we passed at one of the little churches, they invited us to come in. It was really nice inside there and the people sang, danced and prayed. We had to introduce ourselfs, everybody applauded and than the prayed for us. That was a nice experience. We also saw a lot of babies crying because they were hungry. So we bought something to eat for some of them. The mothers were so happy about it.
Today we have been in the main hospital. That was quite shoking. In the section of the abadoned children we saw many deformed and handicaped childs. No one of them laughted, they felt sad and the situation was sad too. In the afternoon we went again to the hospital of medecins sans frontieres, because we had promised to give the pictures of the children to the mothers. They were so happy to have a photo of there child. Unfortunately, one of the children was already dead…
I took some new photos and promised to bring them with me the next time I go there. I’m sorry for my English, there must be so many mistakes in it. It’s because I’m always writing late in the evening when I’m already tired.