By Darlene VannEDGEWATER, Fla. -- If I had money or influence with the U. S. government the very next cargo plane leaving Haiti would carry every orphan I could find to a place of safety where they would have food, water and medicine and not be sleeping outside on mattresses and blankets on the ground.
There are marauding looters with machetes who are actually trying to steal what little these poor children have to eat or drink.
The situation there is only going to be worse before it gets better and the children should be a priority.
Many, many of these Haitian children were already in various stages of being adopted by parents from other countries, including the U.S. These people are waiting and ready to take those children and assure their safety and health. Let them have them. Now since the quake, more children have become orphans. When the order is restored we can look for surviving relatives for these kids, but they need to get off the streets today! If I hear one more time about lack of paperwork as I watch these poor kids in dysentery filled diapers lying on the ground I’ll scream.
Many, many of these Haitian children were already in various stages of being adopted by parents from other countries, including the U.S. These people are waiting and ready to take those children and assure their safety and health. Let them have them. Now since the quake, more children have become orphans. When the order is restored we can look for surviving relatives for these kids, but they need to get off the streets today! If I hear one more time about lack of paperwork as I watch these poor kids in dysentery filled diapers lying on the ground I’ll scream.
From day one the orphanage workers have been telling the world about the situation but all we hear is they don’t have passports or visas. When communists took over Cuba those parents wanted their children away from the indoctrination they would endure and Pedro Pan came into being. Their kids were flown out of Cuba to the U. S.
Why isn’t the same thing being done in Haiti?
So what if their paperwork is buried under the rubble! Get them to safety then work on the red tape. Just get them out of there!
As Soledad O’Brien of CNN reported the other day, many cargo planes leave the airport empty so why haven’t these children been taken out of Haiti?
Call your congressional representatives and demand action to save these children’s lives. Perhaps an uproar from us will spur the powers that be in both countries to give up the paperwork red tape and just do the right thing, finally.