Hello all,
You may have already or may start hearing the news of the demonstrations
happening in Haiti right now. The team
and I are safe.
Today we were in Titanyen, a rule city in the northern part
of Haiti, visiting orphans and elders. On our way back, we hit traffic and lots
of people walking on the streets. We turned around figuring it was a bad
traffic jam. As we turned around our Haitian staff found out it was a
demonstration and roads were blocked off. We took side roads through neighborhoods
to find another route. What we found out was that there were protests because
the gas prices are rising. This is a
country where the people have so little, often no water, so to raise the gas
price is a huge burden to those who require travel to get to work.
We stopped at an orphanage to wait on one of our staff
members to find the best way for us to travel. There we got to play with the
kids. Our Haitian staff got us all home safely and we are all in the guest
house. We are waiting to hear about our plan for tomorrow. It will all depend
on if our Haitian staff believes we will be 100% safe and not run into any
issues tomorrow. Our Haitian staff is doing everything to keep us safe and our
guest house is very secure.
We will update you as soon as we can tomorrow. Please
understand wifi can be spotty and hard to upload blogs.
Thank you for all of your continued prayers!
-Gabby and group!
