Pull a Child from the RUBBLE in HAITI

When I was 12 years of age, I heard about Haiti on BBC News. The country was experiencing some hard times politically and those who continued to suffer were children and women. Sixteen years later, the August of 2009, I visited the Compassion.com website and picked a little girl to sponsor from Haiti.

Last year in July, six months after the devastating earthquake, I visited my sponsored child in the southern part of Haiti, Les Cayes.

On arriving in Port-au-Prince, my heart was broken to see tens of hundreds of people living on the streets and in tents. I saw children roaming the streets. It reminded me of my own childhood when I was roaming the streets digging out of dumpsters. I had one hope; that someone will hold my hand and take me out of the situation.

In Haiti a bunch of children ran up to me begging I take them with me. I wish I had the ability to take them all with me but at the time I couldn't financially. These children had lost their parents to the January earthquake. They had no one to run to.

Today, there are children still waiting for hope. That hope is you coming alongside and pulling a Child in Haiti out of the Poverty Rubble.