Margaret Trost

Margaret Trost recently published On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti about her remarkable journey in 2001 to Haiti where she was so moved by the people and the poverty that she became convinced that she needed to find a way to make a difference.

She was able to establish the What If? Foundation which began to feed 200 children one day a week. The program has grown to feed 1700 children five days a week and provide over 200 educational scholarships for students. Two hundred and fifty dollars provides tuition, books and uniforms for a student for an entire year.

The language of the government and law and education is French and most of the people speak Creole and have no access to education or public service without a formal education. The recent hurricane IKE has only made a desperate situation worse, but its Margaret's work of compassion that continues to make a significant difference in the lives of countless of the poorest people in the entire world.