Susan Campbell: Gone Back To Haiti, Looking For His People The Hartford Courant
The earthquake hit after the children had gone home.Since 1996, 175 students of Ecole le Bon Samaritain (School of the Good Samaritan) have met in the Carrefour home of a retired Haiti-born Episcopal priest who'd served in Connecticut.
At the time of the catastrophe, the priest, Jean-Elie Millien, was in the U.S. seeing his doctor, and he was frantic to get back.
Don't go, his adult children told him.
It's not safe.
"And to that, he said, 'These are my people. I have to be there,'" said one of his daughters, Stephanie Millien of Greenwich.
In short order, Millien, 75, returned to his wife, Mona, who was unharmed, a heavily damaged school, and children whose whereabouts are, at present, known only to God.
Millien was followed rather quickly by a small army of supporters ...
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