Safe Spaces for Children in Haiti

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00

SAFE SPACES FOR CHILDREN IN HAITI

Margarett Lubin is a Haitian who works with the organization Save The Children. She was at work in Port au Prince when the quake hit. Her house was damaged, and she is sleeping in her car, but she’s still been coming in regularly to her job. She is responsible for creating special places for the children who’ve been left homeless or alone since the earthquake. It means she has to arrange social workers and other support. Margarett joins Dick Gordon to talk about her life and work since the quake.

Find out more about Margarett's organization
Read Save the Children's blog from Haiti

Adventures with Dad

Many of the best stories you've sent in over the years are "coming of age" stories - either the ones when you are actually coming of age, or those times when someone in your life decides that its time for you to go through such a ritual. Brad Stoller wrote in to say "The short (version) of the story is my father taking me - at age 12 on a road trip in the mountains of the Big Sur in California" to have an adventure. As Brad tells Dick, he and his father did have an adventure, even if it did seem a bit self-imposed. It involved a lack of planning, food, water, getting lost, and sleeping in temperatures close to freezing, but it's a memory that also contains an unexplained bit of magic.

The Story from APM - Safe Spaces for Children in Haiti

Safe Spaces for Children in Haiti

SAFE SPACES FOR CHILDREN IN HAITI

Adventures with Dad