For I was hungry and you fed me. I was thirsty and you gave me water to drink.

We started the day delivering two truck loads of water to Cite Soleil.  Last night our leader Amy, informed us that Cite Soleil is the poorest slum in the world, not just the Western Hemisphere.  There are 300,000 people living in an area of 3 square miles, built on a garbage dump with no running water, electricity or sewer.  It is also a dangerous place, so we would need to keep close to the truck.  Decision time... do we trust God, or do we let the fear take over?

As soon as the tap tap (truck) stopped, we were swarmed by children reaching up to be picked up, held and loved.  They clung to us, they touched our hair, felt our blanc (white) skin, and there were many more waiting for the same chance to also be held, but we just didn't have enough arms.  It broke our hearts at the depth of their need,  but we were blessed to hold and love them.  We were privileged to have this opportunity with "the least of these."

A few team members were able to pull themselves away from the kids in order to deliver the water.  Women and children and a few men came with buckets and tubs to receive the clean water and carry it back to their homes.  Even some of the little ones carried up to 5 gallon buckets of water on their heads.

At the first stop, we took the kids for a little walk towards the ocean to sing and dance with them.  As it turns out, it was a place strewn with human waste, where they even bury their dead.  In the midst of this, the kids all sang, danced and clapped with a joy indescribable.

In the afternoon we were excited to see the fruits of our labor with Feed My Starving Children food distribution.  We helped fill the bowls and personally hand them to each child.  Haitian Initiative is an organization that runs a soccer after school camp.  After practice the kids are fed daily with the food from FMSC.

~Kim, Coleen, Jeanne & Wendy