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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: A 'Breach of Faith' in Haiti [Watch (HLS stream): A 'Breach of Faith' in Haiti](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/j4vDpx10.m3u8) (11:21)  _Published 2010-05-18. In the harrowing days after the Haiti earthquake, filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and Julie Platner witnessed families mourning loved ones and youths whose injuries meant tragic choices of life over limb_ --- Jul 28, 2023 3:54 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Haiti: A Love Story](/video/gqkOTkAr/) ### Haiti: A Love Story [Belo: Singing for Haiti](/video/Fgpo2cBT/) ### Belo: Singing for Haiti [What Is Slowing the Relief Effort in Haiti?](/video/9VqUd7gj/) ### What Is Slowing the Relief Effort in Haiti? --- ## Transcript >> Immediately after it happen, I feel that is the end of the world. I say wow, the end of the world. And I see other house fall down and I say, if I see other house fallen, that's mean I'm alive, I survive it. -[ Foreign Language ]. >> Popo. Popo. >> Popo. Popo. -[ Foreign Language ]. >> That system's well good. It's because you could smell her. She's right there. I touched her hand, when was that. Yesterday, right here. It is hard man to know that your own loved one is down there then none you can do. The thought, three days she was screaming help me, help me, help me. Three days. She's a beautician, that's the thing she was doing. You could hear the child crying. But you find no entrance, you know. And you know that you-- some part of you keep saying there was something you could have done which you didn't. It's a guilt, feeling that guilt, ravaging. I've always believed in God. >> How God let this happen? >> I am afraid of asking that question because it will bring some kind of breach to my faith. Because this is hard to think that you rely on a God that's going to allow all this. I say with the magnitude that it happened. It makes you doubt to some extent but I'm trying not to, because all I have at this moment is my belief in God. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. >> So the story about this little girl is that she has a really, really bad wound on her legs. She's young she's thirteen years old but the wound's really bad. You try and explain her but it's pretty hard cause people here are really scared. They don't want to be amputated. So, today the problem is that we left her in the camp yesterday to take her decision, and she left. We don't know where she is. Maybe they were too scared, and they went away trying to find another solution. Thing is if she doesn't come back soon, the risk is that she dies. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. >> I lose everything. All Haitian, not me only, everybody lost, or lose everything. No house, no money, no food and nothing, if we have-- look at where people live in. This is bare. It's very bare. >> We got lives. >> We got life. >> Haitian got life. >> Haitian got life. >> We got life. >> People playing dominoes, people playing soccers, you could see everything is getting back to normal. So if it happened that way, just won't that you will never be with constructive, that's my problem. Don't get comfortable with this. That's not gonna show that you are endowing. No. It shows that you are passive. They could be hungry. It's alright. God want it that way. They could be dirty. It's okay. God want it that way. They're going to have this chopped. Yeah, yeah, yeah, God want it that way. I don't believe that. God didn't want you to be hungry. Maybe you have to make some effort in order to find something to eat, and much more consequences than that. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. >> Do you shout? Shout Michael Jackson. -[ Foreign Language ]. >> You are not alone, for I am here with you, though you're far away, I am here to stay. -[ Foreign Language ]. >> Shout Michael Jackson. Shout Michael Jackson. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. -[ Foreign Language ]. >> I'm saying you go on with the idea of there is a God watching over, protecting. Okay, you get accustomed with the idea. You chose the idea to the point where you leave your protection to that God. But when it comes to provide your need really you find yourself you're on your own, right now where we see. No. I'm not saying He doesn't exist. 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