On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti. More than 220000 people were killed and over 300000 injured.
My women’s charity, The Prettie Committee, has since been dedicated to providing relief efforts to the people of Haiti.
Join our efforts to “Benefit Haiti” with your donations of clothing and personal care items. No cash donations accepted.
For more information on how you can help Benefit Haiti, click here.
On January 12th, the Haitian people “celebrated” the two-year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake which took the lives of some 360,000 men, women, and children. What they celebrated was not the tragedy itself, but the progress which has been made since that fateful day.
With the exception of the downtown area, referred to as “Le Ville,” which may never the rubble has been largely removed, erasing the superficial physical traces, but not the profound emotional scars. Families separated, faculties stolen, children orphaned – this was a tragedy on a unimaginable scale for people who already endure a grinding poverty with little hope for much more than incremental progress generation after generation.
Yet, you’d never know it from looking at them. These are a people who are too proud to wallow in defeat. Huge factories and entrepreneurial individuals alike churn out grey cinder blocks – the staple to Haitian construction –…
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