A “Lil Positivity”: NY Haitian Woman is Reunited with her 4-Year-Old Son After the Earthquake

Something a little positive regarding the earthquake crisis in Haiti:

A Haitian mom visiting New York was overjoyed to hear her 4-year-old son’s voice Saturday night for the first time since the earthquake destroyed her country.

“I asked him if he was fine and he said yes,” a teary-eyed Sophia Cherestal, 34, told the Daily News Saturday. “He told me, ‘Mommy, I have a gift for you.’ Usually he doesn’t want to talk on the phone, today he asked to.” Little Ian Wooley stayed in Port-au-Prince with his dad, Charlemagne Wooley, while Cherestal visited family in Queens Village. The mom was thrust into panic Tuesday when news of the earthquake hit. She heard from relatives hours later that Ian was alive, but she knew no other details until the phone rang today.

“I told him, ‘You’re coming back here to stay with mommy because there are severe problems in the country and you can’t stay,'” Cherestal said. “He said, okay, and asked me, ‘Why are the houses shaking?'”

Ian was in a car with family when the earthquake hit, but her best friend’s son was at home. The building collapsed and the little boy didn’t make it out alive. “I could have lost my son also just like her,” said Cherestal. “I was only lucky. They’re the same age. He was born in July, Ian was born in August. Only God knows why; I don’t know why it was her and not me.” Ian’s father, a doctor, stayed in Port-au-Prince to help with relief efforts. Ian and his aunts landed in Miami Saturday night on their way to New York.

With all the sad images on television and online, we’re happy to see that some families are actually reuniting after this tragedy.

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