Please Pray for Peace

UPDATE: All the children at the Orphanage and School are just fine. The house manager says it is business as usual.

I received an email today from the headmaster at the Three Angels school stating that he had to shut the school down early because of local unrest in the streets. I don't know any more information than that. Please pray the peace comes quickly and that God's protection is on the children at Three Angels.

I posted a little while ago that our food costs in Haiti where rising and rising and we aren't the only ones feeling the financial strain. Many people also have read that article about children having to eat dirt cakes.

This is all very real. Please help.


Below is the AP Story on the rioting in Haiti:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hungry Haitians stormed the presidential palace Tuesday to demand the resignation of President Rene Preval over soaring food prices, and U.N. peacekeepers chased them away with rubber bullets and tear gas.

Food prices, which have risen 40 percent on average since mid-2007, are causing unrest around the world. But nowhere do they pose a greater threat to democracy than in Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries where in the best of times most people struggle to fill their bellies.

"I think we have made progress in stabilizing the country, but that progress is extremely fragile, highly reversible, and made even more fragile by the current socio-economic environment," U.N. envoy Hedi Annabi said Tuesday after briefing the Security Council.

For months, Haitians have compared their hunger pains to "eating Clorox" because of the burning feeling in their stomachs. The most desperate have come to depend on a traditional hunger palliative of cookies made of dirt, vegetable oil and salt. Read more