Sea of Blue

I finally had an opportunity to talk to Marc in Haiti where he has been for a week now. Email communication is still difficult, as our satellite was damaged and our secretary’s computer was destroyed in the quake. She has had to transfer everything over to another computer with which she is not familiar. This means setting up email and our accounting system again. This is something that I would usually help her with if I were there so she is having to figure out some things as she goes.
Marc said that aftershocks are still happening and people are still not staying in their homes. Marc is also staying with about 15 others in an open shelter area on the campus. He has been very busy traveling around town, helping set up shelter tents for people who have lost their homes. He is also helping to set up water systems with Samaritan’s Purse.

“There is a sea of blue tarps everywhere, throughout the whole countryside,” he told me, referring to the tarps brought in by SP. Now the worries are the rains. They have started to come. I heard word from Lifeline yesterday that heavy rains came down, filling up people’s tents. They tried to seal in the bottoms with rock and some kind of embankment around their tents. The assessment team is getting ready to head off and I wish that I could go. I am longing to see the faces of or friends, greet them with friendly kisses and hear their stories of resilience through yet another disaster.