Haiti: Seeing Destruction and Joy by Lukas Mall
Submitted by WeStrive on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 15:50
Lukas Mall went with a group of representatives from Friends of Waldorf Education Rudolf Steiner to help with the aftermath in Haiti. This article is a sharing of what Lukas and his colleagues experienced amidst the devastation, and hope.
Crossing into Haiti on the 11th of February from the Dominican Republic offers us an insight into the busy, chaotic border region where international aid piles up while local, small businesses try to make and take their part of the cake. We are on our way with fourteen educators, psychologists, art therapist, doctors, nurses and experiential educators to do an emergency education intervention with the "Friends of Waldorf Education Rudolf Steiner" to help stabilise children, possibly traumatised by the earthquake of January 12th.
Lukas Mall, photo by Annie Sauerland
As we arrive in Port au Prince, one of the images that struck me and stayed in my head was of people searching in a totally destroyed mall for corpses; the smell of decomposition was in the air, and people were staring at the flattened building as others climbed up and down in the ruins, at the risk of falling themselves.
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