(kids at Grace Village)
Friday we went to Carrefour and met Danny, a Haitian man running a refugee camp since the quake. We were all very impressed with Danny and how he is running things. Before the earthquake, his parents were running a ministry called Grace International, where they had a school, orphanage, and I believe a medical clinic as well. After the quake, they opened their land up to the people of Carrefour whose homes were damaged and collapsed.
It seems the mayor of Carrefour has really stepped up and worked hard to make an organized structure after the earthquake. They have Carrefour divided up into 5 or 6 sections, with a leader of each section. Danny is a leader, but his main focus is his camp within his section of Carrefour. Within his camp, Grace Village, alone, he has about 20,000 people he is responsible for. Grace Village is divided in to 12 blocks, each tent is numbed, and each block has a leader.
The leaders meet everyday to discuss agendas and plans for the day.
Danny believes the real problem in Haiti isn't lack of money, especially now, it's the lack of these three things:
1. organization
2. responsibility
3. communication
We couldn't agree more. Danny's goal is to teach his camp how a society functions and what needs done for that to work properly.
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