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Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – In Haïti the cost of living is very high, the country is forced to important everything from abroad. The situation of the people is precarious and living conditions of persons with disabilities are aggravated by scarce assistance and food. Father Crescenzo, Camillian religious on the island and local referent for Madian Orizzonti Onlus, cares for 50 boys and girls with physical and mental difficulties, completely abandoned by the families. He looks after them in a home free of architectural barriers so the children can move easily around. The inmates of the home known as Foyer Bethlehem, Fides was told, require daily and all round care, washing, feeding, dressing, rehabilitation and medical assistance, and nourishing food.
“Normally – Fr. Crescenzo writes – they need feeding with mainly pureed food made of flour, rice , pasta, meat and also milk, sugar, biscuit and fruits juice. They grow year after year but many are confined to their beds or wheelchairs. They need jerseys, shirts, trousers, skirts and underwear; as well as bed sheets and towels which with time wear out. Most disabled of our children suffer from convulsions and epilepsy , every day they need special medicines not easily found on the Island . Most of the 30 children aged between 9 and 19 wear nappies which need regular changing”, says the Camillian religious priest as he appeals for solidarity to help give these children what they have been denied by nature and human indifference”. (AP) (9/12/2014 Agenzia Fides)
