On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti -- With Post-Earthquake Update - Softcover

Margaret Trost

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977333892 ISBN 13: 9780977333899

Publisher: Koa Books, 2008

Synopsis

Following her husband's untimely death, Margaret Trost visited Haiti to heal her broken heart through service. Struggling to make sense of the extreme poverty, and touched by the warmth and resilience of those she meets, she partners with a local community to develop a food program that now serves thousands of meals each week to children and others in need. On That Day, Everybody Ate, which now includes a post-earthquake update, tells the story of her remarkable journey.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Trost is the founder of the What If? Foundation. A home-based business entrepreneur and former public television associate producer, she devotes her time to raising awareness and resources to fund food and education programs for impoverished children in Haiti. She lives in Northern California.

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"After the benediction, as I prepared to leave, I turned to the elderly woman, who had greeted me in broken English at the beginning of the service, and asked her the meaning of the prayer's final word "Osekou." The passion with which it was said made me wonder. She looked into my eyes, lifted her finger, and drew three letters in the air: S,.O,.S" ______________ "That night I couldn't sleep. Wrapped in my own sheet, I cried in the darkness and prayed for help - for the butterfly woman, the mother of three, the woman who wanted to brush her teeth, the residents of Cite Soleil, and all the children. Their situation was so overwhelming, I felt weighed down with a sense of hopelessness. Suddenly, in the silence of the night, my head filled with the singing of morning prayers at Son Fils. I heard the deep, rich voice of the butterfly woman. I pulled my sheet tightly around me and shuttered as I thought of her peeling skin and sores. But her singing, her voice. In it was a strength and power that called out from her dark cocoon and clung fiercely to life. I felt how deeply she had looked into my eyes, how she'd urgently whispered something. She hadn't given up hope, and as I thought about her wrapped in her butterfly sheet, whispering to me, I heard her urging me not to give up either."

About this edition

• Publisher: Koa Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0977333892
• ISBN 13: 9780977333899
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168