News reports indicate that on January 12, 2010, a devestating 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, about 10 miles south-west of the capital, Port-au-Prince.Prayers go out for all the Haitian people, and for the many people from other countries who were in Haiti to provide security or aid.
Many, many thanks, as well, go out to the nations who have so generously promised aid and support.
Word is that "Kennedy Kid" Jon, a teacher at the Louverture Cleary School, northeast of Port-au-Prince, is okay, although a few of his students may have been injured by a collapsing wall.
I spoke by phone with Jon's older brother, "Kennedy Kid" Matt (living in Arizona) last night (01/13/10). Matt said he had worried that he would have to use the rescue & recovery skills that he had learned in AmeriCorps to go to Haiti and look for Jon.
ReplyDeleteWe are ever grateful for the outpouring of aid coming from countries all around the world, many of whom have suffered the loss of their own citizens in Haiti.
As the chessplayers say “Gens Una Sumus” (We are all one family)