Children living with no clean drinking water or sewer system!

Ladies selling mud pies to those needing ANYTHING in order to stay alive!

MANY HAITIANS DIE WHEN THEIR BOAT SINKS TRYING TO MAKE IT TO A MORE PROMISING LAND!

Sadly many Haitians lost their lives trying to put the pictures you see above behind them! You can see the story and video here! This post isn't to depress you, or guilt you into helping, it's simply to make you aware. Aware of the fact that millions of people in Haiti every single day live with EXTREME poverty, poverty that is impossible for most of us to wrap our brains around. The kind of poverty that sends you to bed hungry, that doesn't allow for medical care, that keeps your children from becoming educated and strips you of any kind of human dignity!

The people that lost their fight for survival on that boat were simply trying to find hope. The kind of hope that would bring them work. Work where they could make enough money to feed their family and possibly give their children a chance for a better future. The hope that maybe they too could go see a doctor when they are sick, or live in a home that provides shelter from the elements. And maybe they even DREAM BIG, something like the picture below. Maybe they dream about having a piece of something we all have. A safe home, food on our table, educated children and hope for a bright future!

IF ONLY THEY TOO COULD HAVE THIS! IF ONLY!