things for kids in haiti, there is plenty of ways to do it besides taking them out of the country. i think you have hit the nail on the head. there is no need to take them out of haiti to do this. even if they you know, they could support them here in haiti. in fact, where the kids are now, at sos children s village, those are beautiful installations. there s a number of different houses. the kids live in 14 or 15 strong groups. they have got a big communal table there they all meet around and have three square meals a day. why don t these american baptists pump some money into that instead of doing their own thing, when they clearly have no experience in that? i know from dan simon s report that they were saying they were trying to do this the last two years. what laura silsby told us was she only founded her charity a year ago. fascinating story. karl, i appreciate your dogged reporting on it. thank you very much. not easy trying to figure out what is true on the ground in port
in the adoption process that is one thing but for the kids who are still in haiti right now, you know, focus should be on trying to make their lives better, cause not everybody can be taken abroad. some do have that poor father who gave up his child, you know, cause he felt he couldn t give his child the life. also not clear from me that they even had an orphanage in the dominican republic. i talked to you about this last night. they said they were going to be building it, but it is not as if the need in haiti was so dire to get these kids out, you know, they could have come up with a facility in port-au-prince to fund and give money to i mean, people want to do good things for kids in haiti there is plenty of ways to do it besides taking them out of the country. i think you have hit the nail on the head. there is no need to take them out of haiti to do this. even if they you know, they could support them here in haiti. in fact, where the kids are now, at sos children s village
one thing, but for the kids who are still in haiti right now, you know, focus should be on trying to make their lives better because not everybody can be taken abroad. some do have that poor father who gave up his child, you know, because he felt he couldn t give his child a life. also not clear to me that they even had an orphanage in the dominican republic. i talked to you about this last night. you said they were going to be building it. but it is not as if the need in haiti was so dire to get these kids out, you know, they could have come up with a facility in port-au-prince to fund and give money to. i mean, people want to do good things for kids in haiti, there s plenty of ways to do it besides taking them out of the country. i think you have hit the nail on the head. there is no need to take them out of haiti to do this. even if they you know, they could support them here in haiti. in fact, where the kids are now, at sos children s village, those are beautiful installation
do we know how all the kids ended up with this group? that aspect we ve been working on very heavily today and have got explanations from the three interpreters, which also backs up information that we got from parents themselves yesterday. and what we understand now, from a number of sources, interpreters, parents, and also the s.o.s. children s village now looking after those kids is that probably 20 of the 33 children have a mother or a father or in some cases both. the status of the other 13 is still being looked into, but we do know that some of those 13, while they may not have a mother or a father, certainly have a very close relative, which could be an aunt or an uncle or an adult sibling. so in no way were all this group, nor even the majority, orphans. now, according to the interpreters who translated the conversations between the american baptists and the people that they were collecting children from, the interpreters
children, saying we can t care for them, can you help? what do you make of all this? i think people are very misinformed and ignorant about the importance of children being allowed to be as close as they can to family and to remove children physically from a local area where they might have an opportunity to be reunited with their family is just really misdirected. georg, how much of that have you seen in haiti? where people are in such dire straits, that if a relief organization comes along, they say i can t take care of my child, can you take care of him or her for me? well, the situation is really terrible and we are trying as i said at sos children s villages, we are trying to build up safe setting for hundreds of children. to me, it s still surprising. how can you bring children out of the country? the situation is quite clear. sos children s villages and all