Anyone local to these people?? Appalling!
Karleen Gribble
Australia

http://www.tillsonburgnews.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3038913
Volunteers take along a variety of donated goods and while there,  
multi-task at a variety of general and targeted duties including site  
maintenance and support and providing medical care. The latest trip  
featured painting, organization of the Coram Deo pharmacy,  
distribution of extra medical supplies to other facilities and  
distribution of around 80 baby kits they had brought (30 by the first  
team, 50 by the second) to infants under the age of six months, or  
those visibly malnourished.

Safely describable as a baby shower in a bag, the kits contain items  
including outfits, bibs, diapers, sanitary products, bottles, vitamins  
and dolls, courtesy of knitting clubs around the world.

"Everything but the kitchen sink in there," said Pais.

Breast feeding is seen as the best option for Haitian mothers, but  
formula is provided in case of malnutrition.

Simply showing up at tent cities with the kits could have led to a  
potentially-dangerous mob scene so they were distributed via an  
ingenious system utilizing donated minor league baseball and athletic  
cards. The Angels visited five different small tent cities and with  
the aid of unofficial officials from each, selected appropriate  
recipients. These were handed a sports card with B or G (boy or girl)  
written on them in magic marker, along with a designated time to  
present to the gatekeeper at the Coram Deo facility for redemption.

"They come with the card," said Teresa Magashazi.

Pais recalled the look on one mother's face, flabbergasted and shocked  
when she realized the extent of the bag's contents.

"She was thinking just diapers and maybe clothes."

The smile on the faces of appreciative mothers who have virtually  
nothing is worth every bit of effort, says Cisek.

"And these babies are just adorable."

Baby kits were distributed to residents of five villages, home to  
between 200 and 1,000 tents. There are some larger tent cities, well  
organized and run, but the ones the Angels visited are small, local  
sites, home to those who can't travel, or wish to stay as close as  
possible to their pre-earthquake residences.

"We go to the poorest of the poor," said Marlene Magashazi.

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