Farewell, and see you soon. The journey is not over.

My heart is filled with sadness and I wonder why. I'm leaving here, leaving Port au Prince, Haiti. This is a place I have fallen in love with. Love for the people. Love for the passion and the pure fight for life. Love for the determination to continue to find pride and dignity in these terrible condition. It is inspiring here, in a way that is beyond words.

We truly have to do something that will begin to bring the basic necessities for life to these beautiful people. The children are ill, the systems are down, the rainy season is beginning. When the rainy season and then the hurricane season start, and the skies open up, health standards will be harder to maintain, disease and infection could spread more rampantly with the increased vulnerability of people’s bodies in those conditions, all of which could lead to more fatalities. “The prospect of bad weather has aid workers and homeless people scared,” reports The Guardian.

There must been basic needs meet so healing can happen. There is still hunger, sadness and anger.

Thank you Haiti for opening my heart and being kind and passionate.
Thank you Marc Baptiste for protecting me and being my angel. But the rainy season is coming! Please God help them, if families do not get homes they need to be brought to places to stay protected and safe.

Donna Karan is truly committed to continuing the Tent Campaign.

"We can't walk away from this and lead our daily lives as if nothing had happened," Donna Karan immediately thought when she heard about the tragic earthquake in Haiti. "This is a wake-up call, a call to community, to caring, to something greater than ourselves."

Andre Harrell, an entertainment industry executive and founder of Uptown Records, heard the same call. "From the first moment I heard about the crisis in Haiti, I felt a sense of responsibility -- and the question: 'What can I do to help?' It sounds a little mystical but I felt like the universe was speaking to me," he said.

Harrell went through a typical day for him--high level meetings uptown, midtown and downtown in Manhattan. Later at the Boom Boom room, he connected with his friend, Andre Balazs at Balazs' elegant Standard Hotel. "We're great friends and I felt the urgency of finding a way to support him in supporting Haiti," Balazs explained. "This is an opportunity to take advantage of a tragedy to focus the world's attention on an ongoing crisis, and create a sustainable solution."

Before long, the two Andres reached out to Donna Karan, whose Urban Zen Center is just a few blocks away from the Standard.

"We have the passion to support Haiti, we have the dream of making a difference, but the question is how do we make it happen?" Karan asked when the powerhouse creative trio met to discuss partnering to bring together the New York art, music, fashion and entertainment worlds to kick off a benefit called Hope, Help, and Relief Haiti, slated for next Monday, February 8th.

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As resources and volunteers head to Haiti, I learned that among the medical personnel who have traveled there to serve are Urban Zen presenter and good friend, Dr. Mark Hyman, MD, and his lovely wife, Pier Boutin, also a physician. Traveling with them are a medical team.

The dedicated pair arrived in Port Au Prince on Friday night, and according to a report sent to a colleague, which I'll quote here, they found "the conditions to be absolutely horrific, a scene of death, devastation, and chaos."

“Human poverty is hugely susceptible to nature's depredations, and Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries, has again and again been the victim of demonically destructive wind, rain and flood,” wrote Amy Wilentz who has lived in and written about Haiti.

“In the developed world, such vulnerability would lead quickly to measures for the public safety. But Haitians cannot expect what Paul Farmer, an anthropologist and physician who has worked there for more than two decades, calls 'protection from the foreseeable.'”