Deliver Food and Water Leon, Haiti
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Friends -
I need your help so that I can send money to the people of Leon, Haiti, so that they can buy food and water. Hurricane Matthew washed almost everything away in that town, and there is no food in Leon.
You might say, "But the USS Iwo Jima is there, and so is the Mesa Verde, and they are wrapping up operations, so it must be all good, right? But there is no food in Leon.
You might say, "I've seen videos of helicopters bringing food to people in Haiti. It does not matter that Leon is 30 miles away from the port, up in the mountains, becasue there are helicopters, right?" But there is no food in Leon.
You might say, "But there are large multi-million dollar international relief agencies delivering food in Haiti. I gave some money to them". But there is no food in Leon.
It does not seem possible that people can starve to death a few hundred miles away, but when they do not eat for three weeks that is what starts to happen when there is no food.
And so finally, after all of the hapless agencies bypassed Leon, I sent down a few thousand dollars by wire with the help of my church (St. Francis of Assisi), and the town leaders of Leon were finally able to join the desperate scrum of food in the port, and hire trucks and bodyguards, and bring the food back to the people in town, and for a day there was food and rejoicing in Leon.
But again today there is no food in Leon. The people will work and plant new crops and they will grow but that will take months and in the meantime there will be no food in Leon. And so they will dig for roots and boil them and pray for stray nuts to find in the soil.
And there is my bagel from Panera sitting next to me as I write this, but how can I eat it when there is no f-ing food in Leon.
And I know no one likes it when people write things like this, and I hate when other people do it, and I hate myself for doing it, but what I hate more is that there is no food in Leon.
And so I will just keep saying there is no food in Leon becasue it is true and I do not know what else do to when there are no news cameras or Congresspeople or relief agencies in sight, and all you can do is send cash money directly to your men in town so that they can claw their way into the pile of food and make it back to town to give it to the people who have no other way to get it.
Please help. 100% of all money raised during the next thirty days will be removed weekly and wired directly to Leon for the purchase of food and water.
-Daniel F. Cardile
Chairman, St. Francis of Assisi Haiti Committee
Derwood, Maryland
(Twinned with St. Paul's Parish in Leon, Haiti)
I need your help so that I can send money to the people of Leon, Haiti, so that they can buy food and water. Hurricane Matthew washed almost everything away in that town, and there is no food in Leon.
You might say, "But the USS Iwo Jima is there, and so is the Mesa Verde, and they are wrapping up operations, so it must be all good, right? But there is no food in Leon.
You might say, "I've seen videos of helicopters bringing food to people in Haiti. It does not matter that Leon is 30 miles away from the port, up in the mountains, becasue there are helicopters, right?" But there is no food in Leon.
You might say, "But there are large multi-million dollar international relief agencies delivering food in Haiti. I gave some money to them". But there is no food in Leon.
It does not seem possible that people can starve to death a few hundred miles away, but when they do not eat for three weeks that is what starts to happen when there is no food.
And so finally, after all of the hapless agencies bypassed Leon, I sent down a few thousand dollars by wire with the help of my church (St. Francis of Assisi), and the town leaders of Leon were finally able to join the desperate scrum of food in the port, and hire trucks and bodyguards, and bring the food back to the people in town, and for a day there was food and rejoicing in Leon.
But again today there is no food in Leon. The people will work and plant new crops and they will grow but that will take months and in the meantime there will be no food in Leon. And so they will dig for roots and boil them and pray for stray nuts to find in the soil.
And there is my bagel from Panera sitting next to me as I write this, but how can I eat it when there is no f-ing food in Leon.
And I know no one likes it when people write things like this, and I hate when other people do it, and I hate myself for doing it, but what I hate more is that there is no food in Leon.
And so I will just keep saying there is no food in Leon becasue it is true and I do not know what else do to when there are no news cameras or Congresspeople or relief agencies in sight, and all you can do is send cash money directly to your men in town so that they can claw their way into the pile of food and make it back to town to give it to the people who have no other way to get it.
Please help. 100% of all money raised during the next thirty days will be removed weekly and wired directly to Leon for the purchase of food and water.
-Daniel F. Cardile
Chairman, St. Francis of Assisi Haiti Committee
Derwood, Maryland
(Twinned with St. Paul's Parish in Leon, Haiti)
Organizer
Dan Cardile
Organizer
Redland, MD
