Mitch Albom

It's an hour and a half from Miami, you know, and we were in Haiti in the, you know, 20th century.

occupy or control its government, you know, basically for 15 years that their money was in our banks.

We helped write their constitution.

We have a history with Haiti and we shouldn't ignore it.

And unfortunately, not only us, but it feels like the rest of the world kind of, ah, that's just Haiti.

Haiti's always trouble.

But there's so much heartbreak and so much poverty.

And yet the kids are brilliant.

Well, that's why you try to enlist others to support you.

And that's why I write about it.

And that's why I wrote Finding Chica, which was a story about a little girl who we adopted from

Haiti who had a brain tumor.

And in it, I tell the whole story of the orphanage.

Because you're right, I can't do it by myself and nobody can do it by myself.

And I don't kid myself that I'm going to be able to save Haiti in any way.

If you can save one little piece of it and someone else comes down and saves another little piece of it.

And these are children.

A woman picked up a child who was left in the woods crying and she brought him to the police and she said, I found this child who was abandoned.

The police said, well, what'd you pick him up for?

Now we have to do paperwork.