Hearts and Hands for Haiti is an initiative that, together with my best friend, Joy, we created just three days ago.

We are linking it to her non-profit -- Shunem ministries, because Shunem.org has the networks (bases, planes and vehicles) in place that we need in order to get supplies into Haiti. Will it work? Will we be able to get planes in and supplies distributed? I believe so. We already have requests in and are working to get supplies out. I will report on our efforts, successes, and failures here as we try to reach out to those we are connected to on the ground in Haiti.

I will also share with you a stories from my childhood and a few stories from my father, a native of Haiti. Through this blog I hope to better connect you to Haiti, a place of unbelievable joy and sadness...

--Cherie