Haiti (MNN) — Haiti waits for a transitional presidential council to lead the country toward a more stable future. But in the meantime, chaos deepens in the day-to-day lives of Haitians.
Last week, gang members attacked suburbs of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, killing and looting homes without check. More than 33,000 people have fled the city in the past two weeks, a report from the U.N. International Organization for Migration says.
But wherever they go, Haitians can’t avoid the crisis the nation is facing. Experts say around 1.4 million Haitians are on the brink of famine.
“I have never seen Haiti like this before,” says Roseline DeHart of For Haiti With Love, who has been involved in ministry in the nation for more than forty years.
Photo from 2020 of Pétion-Ville, one of the suburbs of Port-au-Prince where gangs carried out attacks last week. Photo courtesy of Reynaldo Mirault/Unsplash.
“We’re all holding our breath to see what’s going to happen. We can only pray and hope that it gets better, because I don’t think it can get any worse.”
For Haiti operates a clinic in the rural Cap-Haitien area. They are pointing the discouraged and hopeless to the God who is in control and is good even in the midst of the nation’s deteriorating state.
DeHart says, “We are still doing what we can for the people. We’re gonna be there until we can’t, until God tell us, ‘It’s time to close down.’”
Like the rest of the country, the clinic has no supplies coming in.
“Haiti needs a change. Pray that it does change,” DeHart says. At the same time, she wants others to know there is more to Haiti than the grim headlines.
“The people are beautiful, the country is beautiful. But evil has taken over right now. What (you’re) seeing on TV on the news, that’s not all Haiti. That’s just a bad part — you know, there’s evil everywhere.”
Would you pray for Haiti each day this week? Pray for revival, that people will turn to the Lord and find hope. Pray that gangs will stop attacking people and that the transitional presidential council will be able to effectively lead for the good of the nation.
Header photo courtesy of For Haiti With Love.
