thank you soooooo much to everyone who has emailed lately.  after reading about our recent trip to haiti, people have been emailing me asking how they can help.

well without beating around the bush, you can donate.  haiti needs help and mission of hope (the organization we went down with) is there to offer this help.  they already have the infrastructure to help these people.  they already have haitian partners to get the food or aid where it needs to go.  they are amazing.  click here to donate and i can guarantee that your money will go straight to the people who need it.

why did we go and why are we alive right now?  these are the questions i keep asking myself (usually in the middle of the night when i can’t sleep).  why would god let us go to haiti just a few weeks before a huge earthquake?  to teach us a lesson?  to show us the fragility of life?  to bind our hearts to these people so that when a disaster hits, we can advocate for them?  i believe the answer is yes.  i feel like it is my job, my duty to speak for these beautiful people who have nothing (and now even less than nothing).  i watch the news and see buildings that we drove by – gone – crumbled to the ground and people that we met might be under there.  this is not a world event that we are far removed from – i was there.  i made friends with haitians that have lost lives, family members, children.  this is not ok.  this is not right?!?!?!  the truth is we shouldn’t brush it off, we shouldn’t carry on with our day.  we should help – because we can.

alex will hopefully be going to haiti again soon, to help where he can.  obviously not all of us can do that, but if you feel compelled to give, please consider giving to mission of hope where people are lined up outside of the clinic waiting for medical care.  click here to donate.

here is a short clip about mission of hope that was featured on nbc recently:

mission of hope haiti on nbc