Yesterday we visited three orphanages. The hardship with which life is lived in Haiti is hard to comprehend unless you see it. Yet there is hope in the eyes of children and teens who dream of being doctors and lawyers and making this island a better place. One moment I find myself thinking that there is no future for this island as I see the squalor and poverty and the next I meet a person who is certain to overcome this circumstance and change it for the next generation.
Real poverty is hard to understand until you see it first hand. The poorest people in the U.S. would be upper middle class in most of the rest of the world.
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