I’ve hinted a couple of times that I’ll be taking a long trip in 2008.
In April this year I’ll be joining a small group of others to fly to Haiti to observe the aid work of Compassion.
Compassion works with the poorest of the poor children in over 25 developing countries around the world in Africa, Asia, Central and South America.
Compassion works in partnership with local churches in developing countries; providing resources, training and expertise to assist in the operation of holistic child development programmes.
Each year in May, 98.5 Sonshine FM runs Compassion Day, a day where we highlight the great need to sponsor children in developing countries to provide a better life for them and their families. My trip will help me to communicate the vast need and the effectiveness of Compassion’s work.
The CIA’s World Factbook tells me that Haiti is a country in desperate poverty.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty. Two-thirds of all Haitians depend on the agriculture sector, mainly small-scale subsistence farming, and remain vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by the country’s widespread deforestation.
I’ll spend one day in Miami before about a week and a half in Haiti. Planning is in the early stages at the moment so I’ll tell you more as the journey gets closer.
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