Birth Story from Haiti

[notyummy]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8469290.stm A happy ending - but probably only because there was a tv crew with a vehicle there. Please count your blessing and give generously to either the DEC or Medicins sans Frontieres.

have my 6 week old son on my lap and have been crying over that news report. That little baby will need so much good luck.

Ginger - I donated to Mary's Meals Haiti appeal too! (it is part of the charity Scottish International Relief). I already donate to one of their projects in Malawi so was on their emailing list.

Lovely pic of woman breastfeeding her new baby boy on the news at 6pm.

Glad this situation/filming was dealt with a bit more sensitively than the film crew trying to show every detail of a birth at a Haiti hospital as the doctor paniced over breech delivery that was on the news....no attempt to give the woman some privacy at all. Blatant ratings chasing.

Well notyummy, I was watching the 6pm bbc news but obviously not closely enough to see what was reported on the other thread.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Very true lollopops.

Apparently they are still managing to dig kids out of the rubble 9 days on. I do vaguely remember about the Mexico earthquake in 1985 when nearly all the newborn babies that were in the nursery at a hospital in Mexico City at the time. These babies were pulled out of the wreckage mostly unscathed but lost their mothers. The babies were found seven days after the initial event and survived without nourishment, water, warmth or human contact for all that time.

Children can have incredible resources.

SOS Children's Villages as edam says - I've been supporting them for a while.

Thanks Marwois

ginger's story is shocking. I think here, there are such huge sums of money being talked about, that it's hard to understand that it's all needed. Probably some of the money is qoted twice, eg X company donated 1 million euros, and then later, the UN has collected y million euros, etc. It just sounds so much.

It's only when you hear first hand accounts of what it's like, that it really comes home how much money is needed to rebuild things.

The sad thing is that when a countrry for example donates $1000000 it is not always a cash amount. More often then not it is $1000000 worth of soldiers wages, doctors wages, the cost of feeding them etc etc which is kind of a pity becuase it would be nice to get the assistance AND the money.

Peachy, while I cannot say why your school won't have a non-uniform day, I can only imagine that a part of the reason is that they may have chosen already a different way to support Haiti. Our school has chosen a sponsored silence during Pastoral time on a Wed which is 30 mins long.

Non uniform days have a way of reducing work by raising excitement levels so a lot of heads try not to have too many of these. The erm excuse is that the number and dates of non uniform days are planned into the school calendar in advance and those tend to be for long standing causes the school is supporting.

Shocked at ginger's story.