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Beyond tears in Haiti - World Blog - msnbc.com
I have donated to several agencies including my job. What's wrong with the food and supplies not getting to everyone?
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Haitian community grieves in North Miami
TH MIAMI
Haitian community grieves in North Miami
In North Miami, the Haitian community gathered to grieve for those who are still missing.
Nicole Dieujuste holds a picture of her 28-year-old sister, Wilda St. Juste, who has been missing since the earthquake in Haiti. PEDRO PORTAL / EL NUEVO HERALD STAFF
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BY NADEGE CHARLES
ncharles@MiamiHerald.com
Nicole Dieujuste broke down sobbing Saturday, clutching a picture of her only sister, Wilda St. Juste, still missing in the rubble of her home in Haiti.
In her other hand, Dieujuste held a picture of her sister's daughter, Ranya Gilles, 7, rescued hours after the quake. Neighbors heard faint cries and chipped a hole in the debris large enough for the girl to escape, dusty and bloody but alive.
``She doesn't know her mother is dead. When I call Haiti, she keeps telling me `I don't see my mom,' '' Dieujuste said, tears in her eyes.
Dieujuste joined other members of South Florida's Haitian community in a ceremony at Monique & Loriston Community Funeral Home in North Miami to grieve -- in some cases for the first time -- for lost loved ones who likely will not receive a proper burial.
Dieujuste has tried to give her sister a suitable final resting place. A week after the earthquake, she flew to the Dominican Republic and caught a bus into Haiti to retrieve her sister's body, but no one had the needed equipment to remove heavy cement blocks that fell like dominoes, trapping her sister.
The memorial service provided closure for some. Jean Rene Charles said the sermon and solemn funeral songs in Creole gave him the peace he's been seeking since the earthquake struck his island nation.
``I know this service will not bring them back, but I need it for my soul,'' said Charles, who lost four nieces and nephews between 4 and 18.
Monique Mathelier, the funeral home owner who planned the memorial, said many in South Florida's Haitian community have not yet started to grieve for family members still missing and assumed to be trapped beneath rubble or already buried in mass graves.
``It's very difficult to start letting go with so many unknowns,'' she said.
``This is a start.''
For Dieujuste, who said she hopes that someday she can adopt her niece, the pain was overwhelming. She cried: ``She's all I had, my sister.''
Haitian community grieves in North Miami
In North Miami, the Haitian community gathered to grieve for those who are still missing.
Nicole Dieujuste holds a picture of her 28-year-old sister, Wilda St. Juste, who has been missing since the earthquake in Haiti. PEDRO PORTAL / EL NUEVO HERALD STAFF
Photo
Related Content
Complete coverage of the Haiti earthquake
BY NADEGE CHARLES
ncharles@MiamiHerald.com
Nicole Dieujuste broke down sobbing Saturday, clutching a picture of her only sister, Wilda St. Juste, still missing in the rubble of her home in Haiti.
In her other hand, Dieujuste held a picture of her sister's daughter, Ranya Gilles, 7, rescued hours after the quake. Neighbors heard faint cries and chipped a hole in the debris large enough for the girl to escape, dusty and bloody but alive.
``She doesn't know her mother is dead. When I call Haiti, she keeps telling me `I don't see my mom,' '' Dieujuste said, tears in her eyes.
Dieujuste joined other members of South Florida's Haitian community in a ceremony at Monique & Loriston Community Funeral Home in North Miami to grieve -- in some cases for the first time -- for lost loved ones who likely will not receive a proper burial.
Dieujuste has tried to give her sister a suitable final resting place. A week after the earthquake, she flew to the Dominican Republic and caught a bus into Haiti to retrieve her sister's body, but no one had the needed equipment to remove heavy cement blocks that fell like dominoes, trapping her sister.
The memorial service provided closure for some. Jean Rene Charles said the sermon and solemn funeral songs in Creole gave him the peace he's been seeking since the earthquake struck his island nation.
``I know this service will not bring them back, but I need it for my soul,'' said Charles, who lost four nieces and nephews between 4 and 18.
Monique Mathelier, the funeral home owner who planned the memorial, said many in South Florida's Haitian community have not yet started to grieve for family members still missing and assumed to be trapped beneath rubble or already buried in mass graves.
``It's very difficult to start letting go with so many unknowns,'' she said.
``This is a start.''
For Dieujuste, who said she hopes that someday she can adopt her niece, the pain was overwhelming. She cried: ``She's all I had, my sister.''
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