Big Aid – All Hat and No Cattle (1/22/2010 5:04 pm CST)

Via Joe Knittig, Live from Haiti;

Little ones – orphaned or displaced - are starting to flow in from the hospitals. Thank God.

These warriors serving at the hospitals are in a terrible position. They have these children. They’re setting bones, amputating limbs, cutting in impossible conditions. They can’t keep track of them in a sea of desparate need. Trafficers are free to waltz in and sneak out with the kids who are alone.

The hospitals and camps can’t wait for big hand wringing aid groups to formulate “strategies” in endless meetings.

We went to a Child Protection “strategy” meeting with major organizations. I kid you not… The next 4 days we can, if we choose, attend meetings for hours. No thanks. We can recognize a child left alone to die. We’d rather move NOW for that child. No meetings needed. It ain’t rocket science.

So enough!!!

We’re offering an option to the hospitals to give them the help they NEED. We’re getting the word out to them.

And now the neediest of children are coming. These are mainly little ones pulled from the rubble.

The first, a little boy with an IV and barely alive. No one knew his name. He is Patient 1013. He is in danger. Broke his pelvis and back, it seems. But he’s still fighting.

Pierre has a broken femur. Stanley will likely have his arm amputated. James has a head injury. Moliva has an infection in her leg. Franzia is scarred and disfigured. Etc…

All are beautiful. And they are bonding.

What a joy they are. Keep ‘em coming hospitals. They matter to you. They matter to us.