Solid Arity.

Does the word "solidarity" come up in your life very often? What does solidarity mean to you? What does it mean, in your mind, to be "in solidarity" with a group?

Matthew 25 News

Dispatches from Matthew 25 House

FARM FAMILIES NOT HIT BY THE EARTHQUAKE ARE STILL AFFECTED

In Haiti, community organizers are known as “animators”, natural leaders who know how to stimulate and encourage others toward a common goal. They are rarely paid for their work, but are simply active members of their own communities. For the past several weeks a group of animators has been trying to assess the changes in the life of farm families in various communes, in different regions of Haiti, in hopes that the effort will result in farmers receiving earthquake relief assistance.

The animators meet at Matthew 25 house every day prior to going out to the countryside. Three Americans, Monica, Eric, and Mark, who have taken on the responsibility of entering the collected data, are also at the house. All of these people are part of the *Haiti Response Coalition* I’ve mentioned numerous times in other posts. Lilica, a woman from Greece, handles logistics for the group. The animators are also the people who have pointed out the locations where mobile clinics were most needed.

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Thought for the Day

"I love WL's [white liberals], love 'em to death. They're on our side," he had told me some days ago, defining the term. "But WL's think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don't believe that."

— Paul Farmer, as quoted in Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains