See a Need, Meet a Need 

Haiti faces many challenges, and no one person is big enough to solve them all, but when we see a person facing a desperate and insurmountable situation, we know we need to help as we are able.  This opportunity presents itself in different forms, and we have seen many situations.

Imagine you have just given birth to a beautiful child, but are unable to pay the hospital bill.  The hospital will not allow you to leave until you are able to pay.  So you sit in a hospital courtyard, after a c-section, while your family scrambles to find a way to pay.  This “hospital jail,” as it is sometimes called, is real, and we have been privileged on several occasions
to help people out of this terrible situation.

What if you were in a hospital, in need of treatment for hemorrhaging during a miscarriage?  The doctors stood ready to provide care, but the hospital doesn’t have antibiotics, pain medication, IV fluid, or even the sterile gloves necessary to perform the procedure.  In a country with limited resources, sometimes the only solution is for someone to physically go to a pharmacy and pay for these items, and we have been able to do this for many people.

“See a Need, Meet a Need” isn’t about throwing money blindly at a problem.  It is about providing compassion and relief to someone in their time of greatest need, as that specific need presents itself.  It is about bringing supplies into the country when we visit and helping to ease the burden wherever we can.  If we have the means to help, shouldn’t we?