Call to Prayer

After hearing about the earthquake in Haiti, I went to church and learned about why bad things happen to good people. The answer was simply because we are not God. Even if we are not God, we can still do something to help those people in need. We can pray. You may be saying, what will prayer do to help those people who you see on T.V. struggling. Prayer can not only help you feel better but you can ask for guidance from the Lord. Even if you are not Christian, I encourage you to pray. Pray for the people who are in those situations, pray for the people who are helping people in those situations, and pray for guidance. It does not have to be in a country far,far away. It can be the people in your country, in your town, in your street. Just pray, it will make a world a better place.

Haiti,the Story of the Unknown Children

Most people know the story of Africa and Iraq using child slaves but what people might not know is that Haiti, the island paridise, has a dark side to this slavery around the world. 24% of children ages 10 to 14 work without pay. They work as street traders, and for sexual reasons. 250,000 to 300,000 children work, 80% of whom are female and 20% are males. This to me is very distrubing. These children are taken from their families and sold into servitude while thousands of vacationers relax and rest while these kids work up to 12 hours a day.

We are not going to ignore this any longer.An organization called Restaveks is trying to solve this delima that is occuring all around Haiti. These children are the faces of this tragedy:

Some of these children do survive like a boy called Cielo but unlike him who made it, there are thousands like this girl who are still in servitude.



10% of the total Haiti children die because of malnutrition before age of 4.This in my book is not acceptable. So do these organizations and they are doing something about it, they are saving these kids.

Here is a list of just a few organizations:

• HaitiChildren.com




• Stopchildslavery.com




• http://www.nchr.org/

W e don't know what their living arrangements are or what these kids even make but all we know is that we must help them because they are just kids who are in desperate need of a better and kinder world they are living in so please, help one of these kids today.