Survival

Brent Fudge, the Back2Back full-time missionary said to me that, 

"much of your time (in Haiti) is spent surviving."

Surviving. 

Recently in school my 12 year old son wrote in a school paper that, 

"I believe it takes strength to survive."

The Fudge family is strong. The Haitian's they serve are strong. Day in and day out they survive.

A wall being built around what will be
the Jesus in Haiti School
and Church

When I visited Haiti I got to witness the strength that was need to live. The daily grind. Find time to make money, buy food from your neighbors shanty store that they run from the gate of their property. Get home before it gets too dark, because things get scary after dark. There is a reason every single property has EIGHT FOOT HIGH WALLS with steel gates. These walls are what you build first!

Not Bad People...Bad Circumstances

The walls aren't built because there are more bad people in Haiti. The walls are built because there are so many people that have a significant need to scrap together a dollar. Theft isn't so they can live a more comfortable life. They live every day surviving. If there is something they can easily take to survive they will. In Haiti a crime of opportunity so happens to be pretty much anything not blocked by a wall. 

Because Surviving is so significant to how life is lived in Haiti I will likely have numerous posts about survival.