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I would like consideration to be given to offering to Haitians a communal living situation similiar to the Israeli Kibbutz.

The Kibbutzim are self sufficient communities that most often if not always are invovled in agriculture.

People become members of the Kibbutz and are provided with a modest living area, and take their meals in the communal dining hall, where all the food is cooked.

In return they are expected to work their scheduled job. The children live separate from their parents in houses within the community and receive 24/7 care provided by other members.

This system was put into place as the members worked long hours in the fields and worked 6 days a week. There are other jobs such as food preparation, maintaining equiptment, building and repairing structures, the business end, cleaning, child care, whatever it takes to make they system work. The kibutzim that I visited had as few as 90 members and ask many as 900 members.

My thought is that the parents would have a support system within their community to be able to work and have care for their children.

My hope would be that this would lead to less orpahned children.

For the parents who would need assitance in learning to provide care for their children there would be support.

I would also hope that the individual kibbutzim would also arrange to take in a group of orphans to live with the members children.

Ruth, January 28 2010, 9:14 AM

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