Hope

Piti-piti zwazo fe nich.

This was a Haitian proverb that patients said to encourage each other as they practiced walking on their new limbs, and I heard it many times over the past two weeks.  It means, "little by little, the bird makes it's nest."  I love this because of the emphasis on patience and a hope for a positive result of hard work.  On a broader scale, there is an overwhelming amount of work to be done in Haiti on fundamental levels in order for things to change.  Individual efforts by the government, the UN and NGOs are generally disconnected and loosely organized at this point, and I think it's easy to resort to feeling despair.  I'm hopeful that change will happen through the cumulative efforts, little by little, and I am anxious to see good happen for Haiti.