I have been following the tragic events of Haiti and it's really a sad and heart breaking situation. In a matter of minutes their lives were turned upside down, everything just changed; it was a dawn of a new chapter. I could imagine that everyone was just running their day to day life as it was supposed to be when the unexpected event happened. An event that took peoples' lives, made some widows and others widowers, left children orphaned and some crippled for life. I call it a new chapter in these peoples' lives because after surviving and going through such an experience life is never the same.
This led me thinking of the tremors that we have had in one of our districts in Malawi. The abnormal earthquakes that went on for days increasing strength with each new strike have changed many peoples' livelihood in Karonga. Many people were left homeless and desperate. They lost all they had, they lost their life savings, and some even lost their loved ones. Those wh still have their houses standing have resorted to sleeping outside as it is not safe to sleep in their weakened structures.
Can you imagine waking up and find that all you had is gone; your family, your house, your job just everything. When a disaster strikes it really does leave a mark in one's life.
I think of the wars going on around our continent of Africa, this is another sorry sight. Children who have been made to do unthinkable things as child soldiers, children taking up adult responsibilities whilst they are very young. Children who have seen things that even some of the adults who are in their 90's have never experienced. These children will grow up yes but the painful scars they carry within their minds will always be there. Life is never the same, their thinking is not the same, and their approach to life is not the same. So much hatred, so much anger, so many memories they wish they could just delete from their lives permanently.
How can we help, is there anything we can do to help?
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