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Dialogue : The Voiceless of Haiti
Port-au-Prince, 20 January 2010:
Jonathan Boulet-Groulx offers troubling testimony in the aftermath of the earthquake: “I have a bad feeling when I walk the streets of Port-au-Prince and don’t see even one person with a disability. Is it really possible, in a country where an estimated 10% of the population have disabilities, that there wouldn’t be at least a few people with disabilities on the streets, looking for water or food?”
Do we belong to what hurts us as well as to what heals us? "Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain. On a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control." |
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The longer we journey on the road to inner healing and wholeness, the more the sense of belonging grows and deepens. The sense is not just one of belonging to others and to a community. It is a sense of belonging to the universe, to the earth, to the air, to the water, to everything that lives, to all humanity. [Jean Vanier] | | Taking Action | | A Revolution of Belonging | | | Creating a world where everyone belongs will require our full creativity. | | | | | |
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