Back to Notre Maison

3/17
Went back to Notre Maison this morning to deliver supplies they needed. The kids look great there. A bunch of volunteers from Minnesota showed up. They have been here for a week and are going home tomorrow. They wanted to say goodbye to the kids before they left. We drove through a part of town that was hit really hard by the earthquake. People were out cleaning up though. Foreign aid groups are organizing Haitians into groups, giving them t-shirts, and paying them to clean up the city. What a wonderful idea! One of the workers here said that probably over 300,000 people have died from the earthquake. Official reports are somewhere in the 200,000s but he said there are so many people that no one really knew about before the earthquake, that there is really no way to know for sure how many people are gone. As I talked to one of the interpreters, we talked a little about the earthquake in Chile. He talked about how the earthquake in Chile was bigger than the one in Haiti, but that the buildings here just weren't built well. Then he said, "There are still so many bodies in the rubble. Sometimes they stink." This has just become a part of life here in Haiti. I feel like it is no longer earthquake relief, it's just Haiti relief now. Things will never go back to how they were.