Sistahs Helping for a Cause...

Now…

This was DEFINITELY supposed to be posted in February as one of the many Black History Month posts. However, I put it on hold because I was waiting for the group picture that was taken of myself, the speakers/panelists, and all of the participants. As you can see… the person I was waiting for to send it... never did -_-. LOL. I don’t think they received it themselves from the person who was supposed to send it to them. The never ending chain of waiting on “such and such” ..

Nevertheless, it’s the last day of Women’s History Month :-D… and what better time to post than now.

“Dialogue on Haiti- Come Clean. Reconstructing Haiti. Recession or deadlock?” was held in the Sankofa Video, Books & Café spot on Georgia Ave (NW DC for Outsiders). My girls and I knew they were collecting bars of soap to send to the people in HAITI affected by the ‘quake. We rounded up bars and bars of soap and decided to drop them off to help the cause. When we got there, we had NO idea what we were in store for I mean that in a positive way ..

The aroma of tree Caribbean food and incense hit our nose sense as we walked in. They’d already began the event (we were late Smh lol). Any who… the panelists were communicating with a friend/brother currently in Haiti via internet satellite. He was explaining the conditions currently there. “The people of Haiti don’t need your money. We don’t see that. We need Water… Clothing… Shelter…” That alone stirred up tons of opinions within the discussion. “All these charities you guys give money to… we don’t see that”.

There was one particular fellow who decided he wanted to take it upon himself to say don’t help Haiti... help ourselves... Black people don’t do this... don’t do that... we need to come together and start an organization (that he is in the midst of creating)… However, when asked for the contact of “that” organization or his contact for people who were interested… he became quiet and very defensive/rude. Hmmm… figures.

Aside from that… the event was great. Our eyes were opened to a tremendous amount of information… particularly from the people who were actually over there giving us a play by play of their everyday lives post quake.

More and more I realize... not just Haiti… but this world…

*Woman excerpt from “Minority Report”-Hov… “Help… We really Need Help…”

The Event Set-Up

The angry Man lol

Panelists/Speakers

Soap and Us