Haitians are showing remarkable resilience even as they struggle through dire living conditions and unspeakable loss after the Jan. 12 quake, an official of Mercy Corps said.
In a recent visit to Port-au-Prince, Linda Mason, Mercy Corps’ chair of the board, saw a silver lining amid the surrounding devastation and noted that aid agencies may tap the Haitian people’s “enterprising spirit and give people the tools to help themselves.”
She remarked: “Everywhere I went, they were making the most of meager resources – washing a shirt in a plastic bottle of water, taking scraps of food and stretching them into a meal, scavenging through rubble to find material to rebuild a hut. Their enterprising spirit and drive for survival sprung quickly to life after the earthquake.”
