After completing my mission in Norway I return to Colombia to support my National Society, this work was reflected in 2010 when the Colombian Red Cross deployed its entire responsiveness to support activities in Haiti.

I arrived to Port au Prince two days after the earthquake accompanied by medical staff and IT-Telecom specialists in order to support the rescue team that had move the day before. My mission, Restoring Family Links, after a month of hard work and unimaginable conditions the reunification was achieved to more than 50 families, Am-Cross messages, family repatriation and support to the International Committee of the Red Cross in its tracing activities.

I returned to Colombia to continue my daily life, but after an experience like this one I was not able to do it at all, experiences like this kind open your mind, makes you grow up each day, to the point of waiting to go back, the feeling that you could do more is very strong. Again, in June, thanks to a cooperation agreement between the International Federation of Red Cross and the Colombian Red Cross I had the opportunity to go back, this time to support the relief area.

When I get back to Port au Prince I notice that not much had changed, not counting the dead in the street everything was the same, traffic chaos, destroyed buildings, camps, and thousands and thousands of people in vulnerable situations. The work would be more organized, -I thought- but the challenges in the distributions were increasing day by day, looking for ways to avoid the copy of the distribution cards, to prevent looting and unrest, of being responsible for your own safety and of your colleagues, all this made the work in Haiti was becoming more exciting, and thus, you gave all of you to do better, and thus, reduce the number of vulnerable households.

Now, after six months in Haiti, I find myself back home, satisfied with the work done and the results obtained, more than 80 thousand families benefited by more than 80 camps, not to mention the new beneficiaries, have the satisfaction of mission accomplished. However, as I name above, the feeling that you could be done more continues, and continues when you know that the situation has not changed much, when you witnessed a cholera epidemic is growing faster than ever, when you see that the fight policy affects the normal course of activities, when ... when ... when ... anyway. But, knowing that the world has not turned its back to Haiti, when the humanitarian agencies are still there, as the Red Cross does not lower the guard in the development of their activities and, of course, when you let friends there who believe in Haiti and they give all of them in order to improve the situation. That lets me sleep peacefully.

It should be noted that thanks to the exchange program with the Norwegian Red Cross Youth the personal and professional growth that I got was vital to tackling difficult situations, not only in Haiti, also in my daily life in this world of challenges and decisions.