tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565180487942417406.post250668140730505026..comments2022-03-31T11:28:13.536-04:00Comments on The Whitfields' Guest Blog: A Healthcare Professional's Real-life Experiences With Haitian RefugeesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565180487942417406.post-80961939126567223092010-01-28T11:20:39.778-05:002010-01-28T11:20:39.778-05:00Thanks Barbara! I will pass it on to my superiors....Thanks Barbara! I will pass it on to my superiors. Food for thought....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565180487942417406.post-54803483135869314602010-01-28T11:19:54.641-05:002010-01-28T11:19:54.641-05:00Well done!! Compassion is sooo under rated!
xo, ho...Well done!! Compassion is sooo under rated!<br />xo, hollyHolly Stevenson Duvallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565180487942417406.post-58868330783008989442010-01-28T11:18:30.608-05:002010-01-28T11:18:30.608-05:00Beautiful article, Mom. Well said.
Love,
SteveBeautiful article, Mom. Well said.<br /><br />Love,<br /><br />SteveSteve Harrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565180487942417406.post-16440951316349137512010-01-28T11:17:40.267-05:002010-01-28T11:17:40.267-05:00Great article! Some of my best experiences as a so...Great article! Some of my best experiences as a social worker have been meeting refugees from other cultures and having the privilege of working with them and having them share their culture with me.<br />-LaurieLaurie Darenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565180487942417406.post-59426938521498255362010-01-28T11:16:55.396-05:002010-01-28T11:16:55.396-05:00Barbara,
I’ll be sending out my newsletter on ...Barbara,<br /><br /> <br /><br />I’ll be sending out my newsletter on Monday, with a link to your article if it’s up on your blog by then. Wonderful piece.<br /><br /> I was writing my Monthly Visions the other day and it too focuses on Haiti and the rather pathetic way our international governments have dealt with countries that they promised to help but instead have left stranded. Now, as natural disasters start to escalate, they are going to face a much bigger problem. As countries literally collapse due to infrastructures collapsing that could barely cope in normal circumstances let alone surviving an earthquake or tsunami or rising sea levels, the international community’s head in the sand approach to refugees and poverty-stricken people is not going to work. What is true on the personal level is true on the global: what you choose to resist, ignore or repress gets louder and bigger until you acknowledge it. If the ‘rich nations’ had been true to their financial and humanitarian obligations with Global Development Assistance we may not be seeing the catastrophic suffering we are seeing today in Haiti. However, because they chose to default on their promises the price paid in the end will be beyond anything they could have imagined. <br /><br /> <br /><br />With blood pressure rising,<br /><br /> <br /><br />Love Dana xoDana Mrkichnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565180487942417406.post-21973780852767474232010-01-28T11:15:15.458-05:002010-01-28T11:15:15.458-05:00What a heart wrenching essay! Thank you for writin...What a heart wrenching essay! Thank you for writing it and for sharing it.Bruce Greyson, MDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565180487942417406.post-41127873511245466422010-01-28T10:59:54.713-05:002010-01-28T10:59:54.713-05:00Thanks so much for sharing.........my heart to the...Thanks so much for sharing.........my heart to them all.........may all of our eyes be opened including the Haitians......b<br /><br /><br />--Barry KappAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com