Always with a smile

You see those spots on their heads? It's called tinea capitis, also called ringworm of the scalp. It's caused by mold-like fungi and mostly affects children under 13 years old. Prolonged infection leads to localized areas of swelling, raw skin, or pus filled lesions on the scalp. Most of our kids have it. It's cheap and easy to treat. One of the projects I'm working on is a mass treatment of all the children who have this highly contagious infection. The major obstacle is once again funding. Treatment for one child runs about $10. Let me know if you want to help.

It scares me how most people who've been here long enough, fail to be shocked by anything anymore. It seems they become accustomed to the daily struggles and injustices the Haitian people are faced with. What would happen if we were to stop being shocked by injustice. The answer is exactly what's happening now. Entire countries where people drink polluted and parasitic water, die of dehydration, eat clay biscuits and live on less than $1/day. This is the reality we live in. Yet, it's so easy to ignore when you're not waking up to children dying from hunger and mothers begging for food to feed them.