Incredibly, someone has been rescued from the ruins of Port-au-Prince, after apparently surviving for 27 days! If true, then it's little short of a miracle.
See news report here

Thanks you so much Bob for those wonderful words. Let's pray that they help bring understanding to the discussion.

On a personal level I find this disaster or more appropriately the situation of its younger victims tears at the depth of my heart. Perhaps knowing for so long the plight of the people of this country. Knowing the children who have for so long had no hope and so many children's lives ended to early while so many more find their parents gone (dead or abandoned). Abandonment is not at all uncommon in this country where parents will abandon children hoping for better future for them with others as well as abandoning them since they cannot feed them self much less a child. We whould also not forget this is the country whose population has been ravaged by the AIDS pandemic for years.

This whole situation leaves me in such a personal delima. I constantly hear "send money...send money" as the way to help. Yet, I know of the hundreds of planes, ships, cargo containers, medical personnel in the area now. I ask when does the money become the problem. I personally do not have a very large income. What I do have to give is love. When do we start allowing thos who can share that love with the people of Haiti to go in. How many of us have the love to change a siaper and feed and hold a child who has no one. How many of us can share a warm touch or a smile or just sit with a injured person who has lots limbs or is now paralized for the rest of their life or a person dying from AIDS.

How do we begin to smuggle these forms of aid into the country. We know that shildren (especially infants) need human contact or the death levels will increase. I see so many professional disaster aid people and "not for profit" volunteer placement groups askign thousands of dollars per week to place you. All I can offer is a personal airline ticket, a sleeping bag, some food od my own and ability to buy some (hopefully not making myself a part of the problem) and above this love, hoipe, an old man with a relatively strong back, a mind as sharp as a tack and love and love and love.

Mother Teresa said "The fruit of love is service. Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service.".

How do we put it in action?

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It was really horrible. There is the most effective earthquake in Haiti in last 10 years.

It's amazing how quickly such disasters become 'none news', in spite of the massive ongoing tragedy. Estimates of the deaths from the Haiti earthquake are now put at nearly 300,000, with a similar number injured, and over a million homeless.
It certainly makes the air travel problems, due to the Icelandic volcano, look pretty insignificant!