My Daughter Interviewed While Reporting From Haiti

[RevIan]

Just received this link today of a blogged interview of my daughter (journalist with the Toronto Star) about what her experience has been like in Haiti while covering such a catastrophic event with so much human suffering.

http://www.mediastyle.ca/2010/01/interv ... -in-haiti/

Edit: Just found out a couple of minutes ago that my daughter will be heading back to Canada on Sunday. Her paper is rotating some reporters this weekend. She admits she has mixed emotions.

[chuck]

Powerful interview Ian!

I can really appreciate her frustration with folks on the "outside" of events making such righteous judgments about what is going on in the "middle" of difficult events!

I am very relieved she is coming home Sunday! Yet, I understand her reticence.

God Bless... and thank the Lord for your daughter's service in this catastrophic and epic event. Give her a big hug for me!!!

chuck

[RevIan]

Thanks, Chuck .. but I'll have to give her my hug first! I wasn't home yet, but she phoned home early this evening and told my wife she'll be arriving here in Montreal some time on Sunday via a Canadian military flight (it's arriving in Haiti tomorrow with more aid supplies and equipment ... and her replacement colleague ... and returns to Montreal on Sunday with the next group of Canadian survivors and personnel needing to get home to Canada. Depending on when her flight gets in (we're only about 15 minutes from the airport) she may end up spending the night with us before returning to her hubby and home in Ottawa the next day.

[Deke in TX]

Thanks, for sharing, Ian. From what I read, Joanna is confident, brave and sensible. How splendid for you and your wife. She will be needing the support and love of her family upon her return. For what it's worth, she has my prayers and heart. God bless you all.

[RevIan]

Thanks, Deke. Much appreciated!

[RevIan]

UPDATE: Sunday, January 24/10 ... Joanna is now on-board a Canadian Military C-17 flight with a group of evacuees winging their way back home to Canada via Montreal. ETA is around 5:30 p.m. EST. Airport is about 15 minutes from our home, so we'll be there to welcome her and provide her with some TLC before she heads back to Ottawa tomorrow.

2nd UPDATE: Joanna is back \O/ \O/ \O/ (and will stay with us tonight before heading to her home on Monday). The Prime Minister of Haiti arrived a few minutes before her group did, and other politicians were heading into Montreal. Our Foreign Affairs Minister will be chairing a meeting tomorrow with international counterparts to discuss the reconstruction of Haiti. When Joanna heard the Haitian PM had arrived, she said with disdain that he hadn't even gone on the airwaves of Haiti to address his own people in the aftermath of the quake ... neither had the Haitian President. And many Haitians had access to radios and on of the FM stations as able to get back on the air quite quickly after the quake because their transmission equipment was still able to function.

Thanks for all your prayers, everyone! Deeply appreciated!