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Insight from Haiti: Dear family and friends, When I returned to St Damien Hospital at about 5pm yesterday afternoon, after spending the day buying medicines for our hospitals, there was a woman in the hallway holding a small child, and I sensed something was very wrong. She was not crying, but her face revealed a…

Insight from Haiti: Social and political tensions in Haiti have reached their flash points over the past number of months, and we have been living, with more intensity these days, what seems like the dangerous and cynical unraveling of a nation. The spiral of violence and destruction is both tragic and maddening. The simply stated…

February 12, 2019 Dear Friends and supporters of Haitian Connection, I feel it would be irresponsible not to directly address the challenging situation that is ongoing in Haiti. As some of you may have heard, the entire country has been on lockdown for the past six days as demonstrators take to the streets in a…

November 20, 2018 Dear Friends and Supporters, As I am sitting down to write my annual letter to you, I have just passed my 72nd birthday. I am very grateful that I have achieved this milestone. Furthermore, I have survived a bout with breast cancer, and am feeling very well, thanks to modern medicine and…

Amazing story of success – A great example of a Social Business There are so few success stories told about Haiti, that I decided this story needs to be told: Jeremie Breadfruit Flour and Nursery has been working in the community of Doudouch for several years now. Doudouch is about an hour drive from Jeremie…

Amazing story of success – A great example of a Social Business There are so few success stories told about Haiti, that I decided this story needs to be told: Jeremie Breadfruit Flour and Nursery has been working in the community of Doudouch for several years now. Doudouch is about an hour drive from Jeremie…

Recent Events in Haiti People took to the streets protesting the spike in gas prices, the prime minister and members of his cabinet stepped down. Haiti is choked by another crisis. But it would be too simple to say that the rage manifested in the protests were only about the 40 to 50% increase in…

Haiti, oh Haiti…..  There is so much I would like to say, but cannot express in words. Ayiti cheri, I love you with all that I am. Thanks to you I have become more than I ever thought I would be, more of myself, more of myself with others, more of myself with the world.…

  I had the great fortune to spend the Easter Triduum in Jean Bellune, a remote rural area in the Grand’Anse, at the parish of St. Bernard de Clairvaux. This has truly been a conversion experience and made my faith come alive again. It had gotten kind of dry and perfunctory, but my living the…

Before I came to Haiti, I only knew poinsettias growing in a pot. Here in Haiti they get over six feet tall and they always bloom in December. No wonder we adopted them as Christmas flowers. While I am enjoying myself in cold and wintry Chicago, I think about why I am in Haiti. And…