Getting Ready for Haiti

We've been preparing for our February/March 2011 trip to Haiti, and last weekend Susan Bradley and I put the Care Bags together that we'll give out to street children. Care Bags are zip lock baggies containing a new t-shirt, soap, shampoo, toothbrush and tooth paste, comb, mini-pad of paper and pen, and for the older boys we include razors. We add other items if we have them available like vitamin-C candy, decks of cards, and other goodies. The boys that wash cars on the street are always very thankful, and one time I handed out a couple of Care Bags while at a stop light in Port-au-Prince, and as we drove away a boy smiled and yelled while holding ...