Help for Haiti

Ever since the earthquake in Haiti, I've had an itch to help in some way. Our church currently serves in two different countries, Kenya and Haiti. There seem to always be mission trips planned for these two locations in the world, but the need for one has just been bumped up. Currently, a team from our church is collecting medical supplies that will be flown over soon. A table at my Mops group (mothers of preschoolers) signed up to help supply this team with what they needed and so I decided to further explain what Ayden had been seeing photos of in the newspaper. I think he is actually starting to have a worldly perspective in a way. I think he understands how a state is larger than a city and a country is larger than a state and so forth. I explained to him that a country called Haiti had a big earthquake and that some people living there no longer have their homes, food, electricity, etc. This idea was probably not too far fetched for him since I am always using that line on him at the dinner table that some children in the world don't have a warm dinner to eat, so he should eat his! :)

Anyhow, I decided that Ayden and I would go to the store and pick out some medical supplies to contribute. With most of the supplies we picked out, he had a question or a comment on why the people might need that particular item, so I think it all was sinking in. :) I truly have been waiting to do something like this with Ayden. One day, I would like to expose him to the actual real life situations out there so that he can see for himself the hardships that some people have to endure. This was a good little service project, nice to start somewhere!