The violent scene played out around 4 p.m. Monday in the 900 block of Laurel Drive in Lake Park as deputies say a known gang member opened fire on an SUV.
Haitian Jonas Joseph juggled running a busy hairdressing salon and a small bar in the capital Port-au-Prince for five years, allowing him to provide for his young family.
Then the gangsters took over.
More than 3,700 families across several Salesian programs and educational centers in Haiti had access to better nutrition thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions and Rise Against Hunger. In the second half of 2021, two shipments were sent to Haiti to support nutritional efforts
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By EDITH BURGOS
April 28, 2021, 14 years after the abduction of Jonas Joseph T. Burgos, he is remembered and sorely missed.
Jonas is remembered, more dearly now, than ever before. The abductors and brains of this cruel inhumanity of enforced disappearance have failed in their attempt to erase the memory of Jonas and how he loved his poor countrymen. Fourteen years after his abduction, Jonas’ passion to help the poor is brought to fore, especially now that ordinary citizens are taking the radical, creative initiative to cope with hunger amidst government failure to provide for the most basic need of food for the poor. The Community Pantry initiative has brought back memories of Jonas.