What can we learn from a very young girl who has lost her mother and quietly weeps as she tells us her story? Only later to help us avoid stepping on broken glass with our sandals even as she walks along barefoot beside us.
What can we learn from a mother who desperately needs medical attention for her young child when none is available and we are unable to help?
What can we learn from small children whose only joy for the day is to have some strangers hold and share a laugh or kind a word with them for a few fleeting minutes?
Is it that life is unfair? Why are we so blessed while others struggle with famine, disease and crushing poverty?
Anyone who enters Cite Soleil is faced with many of these sole searching questions. None of which has an easy answer. All I know is that even in the most destitute places you can find hope and joy. Sometimes it's not easy to see and even more difficult to believe. Yet it's there as shown in their faith, spirit, and undying hope and determination that the future will be a better place and even though it may not come tomorrow, it will come nevertheless.
I find that I learn something new every time I come to Cite Soleil and every lesson stems from the heart and soul of the people.
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