'Children are an absolute priority of my life… No good part of my life hasn't been around children or doing things for children,' Albom told Fox News Digital. Inspired by Albom's first non-fiction book since ' Tuesdays with Morrie's' publication, ' Have a Little Faith,' the Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage is a special place of love and caring, dedicated to the safety, education, health and spiritual development of Haiti’s impoverished children and orphans.įounded in the 1980s, after falling on hard times following the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Albom and his A Hole in the Roof Foundation took over operations. MITCH ALBOM TALKS ABOUT MISSION OF HIS HAITI ORPHANAGE AMID COUNTRY'S INSTABILITY, KIDNAPPINGS That realm, Albom says - stressing the importance of giving - is his charity work. And so it really kind of pushed me into a different realm.' 'It really forced me to grow up, and it forced me to recognize the sadness in the world and the heartbreak in the world, but also to try to see the beauty of the world when you survive that and when you can get through it. And not to one or ten or a hundred or a thousand, but tens of thousands of broken-hearted stories of grief and missing people.' 'And suddenly I was thrust into that role of a listener. Can I talk to you about her?' Albom said. And the last thing we did was read your book together. Instead of talking to me about sports… I would have people come up and say, 'you know, my mother died of cancer. 'What began to happen right after I wrote that book is that people started talking to me in a different way. Author Mitch Albom at the Library of Congress' National Book Festival in Washington D.C.

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