02.02.10
In Haiti, a obsequies mass was held Monday for several thousand dead as hundreds of mourners said goodbye to one's nearest members, friends and even strangers who died in a matter of seconds in the January earthquake. They were people whose relations members wouldn’t recognize them — or wouldn’t deficiency to recognize them — if it meant seeing the broken pieces of those they loved. They are in a assemblage grave because so many died so quickly that there was neither time nor the capability to give each his or her polite due.
It is a pleasant spot, this grave for the masses, with a view of the Caribbean that belies the chaos of the quake that killed at least 200,000 men, women and children, sparing few families from sharing in the calamity. Meanwhile, in much of the capital city of Port-au-Prince, officials and visiting let loose workers are focused now on helping those who survived, who are in relief camps set up at every imaginable situate.
Still, portions of the country haven’t seen even the minimum of aid, regardless of efforts of thousands of workers and residents. They are exhausted in a engagement they may sometimes feel they cannot win: to feed and help rebuild a country devastated by want long before nature took her turn at their lives.
Source: Anderson Independent Mail