1. Sometimes helping hurts. After offering monetary assistance, she came to recognize that sometimes when we think we are helping by giving someone something… unless we are allowing them to earn it, we really aren’t helping them.  

Chareyl goes on to tell about the orphanage crisis. People with the greatest of hearts can donate money to things such as orphanages, but really this support is actually fueling the problem in Haiti. Chareyl says that nearly 85% of children in the orphanages there have living parents. When a parent reaches a point where they think that the orphanage will give their child better care and food etc, then they turn their child over. 

Another example of how helping hurts sometimes was after an earthquake. There was talk about others coming into the country to set up free hospitals. She shares what she learned from the owner of the hospital there as to why exactly this would do more harm than good to the people of Haiti and what would really help their people and economy. Sometimes we don’t know exactly what the people need until you go, and you talk to the right people and you see what the true need is.