Open Arms

Hello,

Just wanted to pass on this article. I have been hearing/reading about all the horrible things happening in Haiti after the earthquake took down Port-au-Prince, and I am happy to pass on one of the more positive stories surrounding it. It is amazing for Senegal to make this offer of permanent acceptance to the people of Haiti. :) I truly hope that this offer helps some of those Haitian families in need. I love to see these glimmers of open arms acceptance between countries. If only these sentiments will spread more and more over time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8463921.stm

Some commentary from Onye Ozuzu (one of my dance teachers at CU - I have always valued and respected her wisdom and thoughts):
"I think that this offer is important...spiritually, historically, for an African leader to stand up and claim Haitians as family, in a way that is quintessentially African....that offers to share whatever little there is, simply because of the ancestral dictate to do so. I remember many times in Dakar when someone gave... me half of their last...It reminds us all that Haitians did not get on that island of their own will, that they did not become the "poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere." purely because of their own choices, and that they come from somewhere, as a friend of mine said today....that their "history did not begin with slavery"."

With prayers for those in Haiti,
~Sarah

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