In the beginning...

Alright, I suppose I should let you all know how I got involved with Haiti.

It all started one afternoon I was sitting on my bed having a rather terse conversation with my ex-boyfriend. In attempt to find some common ground the conversation drifted away from our apparent differences towards current events. This was just a few days after the earthquake and although I do not watch the news, read the newspaper, or have cable, even I had heard rumors of the devastation.

He has a lot of family in the medical community and he wanted to send packages to Haiti, but all of the airports had been shut down. I told him the truth, I had absolutely no idea how he could help.

In fact in my enthnocentric American way, I knew virtually nothing about Haiti. I knew it was somewhere in the Caribbean and that one guy from Heroes was Haitian. I also knew that it was poor and possibly French speaking.

I certainly didn't have any answers, but Google always does.