Among the many images students.depaul.edu powerful in Haiti last week, several haunting me. One ima

Among the many images students.depaul.edu powerful in Haiti last week, several haunting me. One image as figuratively stand above the rest. For several days after Haiti memorialized dead and injuries caused by the earthquake two years ago, my host drove us downtown to see the ruins of the presidential palace, the cathedral and many buildings collapsed. We stopped in front of several so-called "Gingerbread House" - constructed of wood many years ago that stand in contact, among the debris of concrete buildings. This reminds us that the country must change its construction loch ness monster philosophy. loch ness monster It was not the earthquake that killed and injured many others in Haiti but poorly designed building cement. As my friend Dr. Patrick Jeudy called loud crowds so often in Haiti, "Never again will we allow this to happen!" Is the largest city square in the middle of Port-au-Prince over-crowded with thousands of tents two years after the earthquake. I look in all directions for the status called Neg brown. I asked my friend to drive me to the statue. He said, "There it is." I said, "Where?" He said, "Among the tents!" All that was I could see the head tipped back to the status and the conch shell that held her mouth. The rest of the statue was hidden in camping tents. Before coming to Haiti, I've seen pictures of noble status. They showed a muscular black man blowing a conch shell held in his left hand. He holds a scythe in his right hand. He believes that against all odds rose warrior Napoleon's army is possible. Neg brown symbol of independence; he had broken the chains of slavery and calling others to join in the revolt. Here, on January 2012, this powerful image bronze for freedom and independence is almost invisible, drowning in a tent city immense. Guy Brown, however, is still standing. It blows the conch called his counterparts to join him to breathe, to stand above the tent cities and rising out of poverty in Haiti. I remember the story of Partners in Health Dr. Joia Mukherjee, when he arrived in Port-au-Prince just days after the earthquake, went to the statue - the symbol of freedom for Haiti. Another woman - a Haitian - who survived the earthquake "put his arms around Joia ... he said, 'Neg brown shin will break.' The free man will never be broken. (Www.pih.org/pages/pih-e-bulletin-2010-02 # joia) He was right! Today, this powerful image, marooned among thousands of tents in the square The center of the destroyed capitol, struggles for air to sound the conch shell again to rally the Haitian people to survive. The earthquake was a force more powerful than the army of slaves defeated Napoleon in 1804. Slaves were forced Napoleon off the island. Neg brown represents the only nation to be founded by slaves. Today, it is the Haitian people, signs calling conch sounded once again in Neg Wolves, who have joined forces with determination to gather around a central goal against overwhelming odds to rebuild their country. loch ness monster Amazing!
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