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[Tina Neves]

Thank you Paul
It gives me deep heart pain...

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 2:27 PM Paul M via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> I was in Haiti in 2007 and though it had troubles then, I felt it had more
> potential than Papua New Guinea where I had been. Then, the tragedy of the
> January 12, 2010 earthquake, followed by cholera etc. set the country back
> again. The Spiritans in TransCanada sent a good deal of help to rebuild our
> huge school in Port Au Prince - College St. Martial (built 1865)  - a K-12
> school. This was a wonderful school but was 3/4 destroyed by the
> earthquake. Slowly, it reopened in tents, then temp class rooms,  and
> eventually things were getting back to normal. I visited Haiti again in
> 2017, and was so hopeful about the school and also our rural ministries.
> However, the very first night I was there, one could sense warning signs.
> The Superior took me and another Spiritan out but every so often, you could
> hear gunfire (gangs). We were told we should head back soon. There were
> also times when the Spiritans from Haiti had to hunker down in the school
> compound or a parish for a few nights in a row. That was back in 2017 and
> it has gotten progressively worse. I was in touch monthly with the Superior
> and the Bursar up until the end of 2021 but not really in the loop now due
> to personnel changes. So sad to see a failed state.
> More intervention or interference from outside countries at this stage
> will probably do more harm than good. The UN peacekeeping force that was
> there before was not only ineffective but also heavily disliked. I can’t
> believe Kenya is going to send troops who of course can’t speak French.
> Some solution will have to come from the ground up- not be imposed.
> Compromise must be reached. But at this stage, I truly believe Haiti is
> only going to get worse- complete breakdown of infrastructure and resultant
> disease, hunger, death. The rural communities of course are much better off
> than Port Au Prince, but even they are dependent on some resources from
> some sort of functioning government.
> Any Haitians that can get out are trying to go to the DR  where there are
> problems with Haitians.
> So, another sad situation in the world that needs prayers and attention
> Paul
>
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> On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 1:51 PM sylvia skrepichuk via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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>> Thanks Dean
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Galaxy
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
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>> Date: 2024-03-11 1:36 p.m. (GMT-05:00)
>> To: Sunday Community <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca>
>> Cc: Dean Riley <riley234 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Sundaycommunity] (no subject)
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>> 
>> Greetings. For those of you interested in understanding the situation as
>> it is unravelling in Haiti… please take a look at this article that
>> appeared on the BBC website today. Around our world, the dream of real
>> peace & justice is becoming ever more elusive.
>>
>> Dean.
>>
>> May peace be achieved in all of creation
>>
>> Que se logre la paz en toda la creación
>>
>> Se pou lapè rive nan tout kreyasyon an
>>
>> ليحل السلام في الخليقة كلها
>>
>> יהי רצון שיושג שלום בכל הבריאה
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