Peter and Sara Craig have finally started working in Haiti after finding transportation there aboard a private jet.
The couple, along with their sons, Noah, 4, and Abram, almost 2, are moving to Haiti from Hillsboro, Ore., to begin work with Clean Water for Haiti, a humanitarian aid organization that works to provide clean, drinkable water for Haitian families. They arrived there Jan. 30.
The Craigs were winging their way across the United States en route to Haiti when the killer earthquake struck Port-au-Prince on Jan 12. They were turned back at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and waited two frustrating weeks at Sara’s parents’ Longview home before finding a ride with The Wheelchair Foundation. The nonprofit organization, based in Danville, Calif., has delivered 600 wheelchairs to Haiti and plans to send more using the founder’s private jet.
The Craigs, who were the subject of a Jan. 19 story in The Daily News, have settled into their home about 40 miles north of Port-au-Prince. The area was not affected by the earthquake.
“Aid groups have been giving out camping tents, and people have pitched them in every open space in the city,” he wrote on Jan. 31 in the family’s blog, ourordinaryjourney.blogspot.com. “Look at the median the next time you are merging onto the freeway and imagine seeing hundreds of people camping there waiting for who knows what. From what we were exposed to, it wasn’t so much the intensity of the situation that was overwhelming. It was the number of people who have been affected.”
Craig ended the Jan. 31 entry saying how thankful he and Sara are for a safe house, electricity, clean water and ample food and how blessed they feel when most of the population is struggling.
“As we begin this new chapter in our lives, we are overwhelmed by how many things we have to be thankful for,” he wrote, “and this is only the beginning.”
SOURCE : tdn.com
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