Silo Henderson lay in bed last month at COTN’s medical clinic in the Dominican Republic.  His mother sat by his side.  The shy 16-year-old had a bandaged leg and looked off into the distance.  He cracked a smile every once in a while, but not often.  In his first week or so at COTN’s medical clinic, Silo had trouble sleeping.  He’d wake up with nightmares or just lay awake—unable to sleep at all.  He had pain due to fear and anxiety.  Anxiety from what he had just gone through—Haiti’s earthquake.

Silo is an only child.  He loves soccer and math and says he wants to be an engineer when he grows up.  He and his parents live in a town called Nazon in Haiti.  Their humble home was on the sixth floor of a building and that’s where Silo was when the earth began to shake far below.  He was alone in the house and when the earthquake was finished, he was alone in the rubble—buried by cinderblocks and parts of wall.  Buried for more than six hours.  Just lying there, injured and in utter fear, hoping that someone would find him.  “When it happened, I was very afraid and praying to Jesus at the same time,” Silo said.

It wasn’t until about 11 p.m.  that Silo heard people who[...]

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