On Wednesday, we lost one of those rare beings we too seldom hear about. And the poor and the politically disenfranchised lost one of their most loving and fearless champions while the Heavens surely gained much more light and love.
On May 28, Father Gerard Jean-Juste allowed himself the privilege of resting after unceasingly working for more than three decades, shoulder to shoulder with the poorest of the poor in Haiti, seeking justice and basic human rights for his fellow Haitians. He was a most remarkable human being and one of the primary influences for initiating this website.
No, we never met. We never even spoke. I’ve only seen him in photos. I learned so much of him and his love for his people and his commitment to ending all this unnecessary hunger and poverty in Haiti through someone else I have never met yet, Margaret Trost. In emails with Margaret, I felt more and more the urgency to do something to counteract the unrelenting and unnecessary scourge of hunger visited on those who already had nothing to eat. And I began writing this blog, promoting simple ways to grow food, educating myself primarily to learn how to teach this information for that ’some day’ when I hoped I would have the privilege of traveling to Haiti and working with her and Fr. Gerry, as he was known.
