Zanj o, zanj o Nou tout se zanj o Zanj anba a se mwen..
Angels, angels We are all angels The angel on Earth is me...
Lisa dole zo- God gives life
"Officials still don't know how many people died in the earthquake, and they'll never know.
The current estimates range fron 50,000 to 200,000....Nobody is keeping count of all the bodies being trucked to mass gravesites.
Beneath the debris are thousands more, lost forever." Carl Hiaasen January 24th, 2010
Gras o, gras o, se pou sen yo lavi miyò...Mercy, mercy, it is for the departed that life is better
The World Joins Us in Solidarity
Lemonn montre yo menm tou, yo konn sa k rele konn-viv
Redemption Song by Rihanna Halo By Beyoncè Haiti, Mon Amour by Jay-z
When visiting Tèbeni, take a pinch of earth and press it against your heart.
Each one of us can light a candle in remembrance of a life lost in the earthquake of January 12, 2010
Liminen, Jete Dlo: Pray and Pour Libation
Tèbeni
Let us join our voices together to call upon the Haitian authorities to respect the dead. Let them change the name of Titanyen to Tèbeni in honor of our fallen family members and friends.
Papa Desalin, ou pa tande m blese. Father Dessalines can't you see I am wounded
Bondye devan: Ginen yo dèyè With God and the Ancestors Let's rebuild Haiti
1. Provide medical care 2. Decentralize the cities 3. Provide birth control 4. Improve infrastructure 5. Educate the children 6. Reforest the mountains 7. Promote human rights and religious tolerance
N a wè lòt bò dlo. We'll meet on the other shore
Haiti Will Survive When my 10 year old saw a picture of the collapsed National Palace, he noted that the palm trees in front of the palace were still standing and he comforted me by saying, “Isn’t the palm tree a symbol of Haiti, Mommy?Look, the palm trees are still there. That means that Haiti will survive.”
Plant a tree to nurture our future
"Today is a good day to remember that in Haiti, nobody ever really dies. The many thousands who've had the breath crushed out of their bodies in the earthquake, and the thousands more who will not physically survive the aftermath, will undergo instead a translation of state, according to the precepts of Haitian Vodou, some form of which is practiced by much of the population. Spirits of the Haitian dead — sa nou pa we yo, those we don’t see — do not depart as in other religions but remain extremely close to the living, invisible but tangible, inhabiting a parallel universe on the other side of any mirror, beneath the surface of all water, just behind the veil that divides us from our dreams..."
Special thanks to Raymonde Jean-Baptiste for the above quote by Madison Smartt Bell from the New York Times 1/24/2010
