Click on the link below to read a moving, in-depth profile of the CIW’s Mathieu Beaucicot from the Naples Daily News, entitled, “Promise kept: Immigrant father endures long-distance love to support, unite family stranded in Haiti”…

Here’s and excerpt to get you started:

“Like any father, he knows certain dates by heart: when he married their mother; the days that they, his five children, were born; and when it was that he sat in the audience at high school graduations, bursting with pride.

But Mathieu Beaucicot’s story includes other moments that many fathers don’t face.

In September 1991, Haiti’s democratically-elected government was overthrown in a violent military coup. Beaucicot was forced to say goodbye to his family and flee his native country. His life was in danger.

He left behind four young children and his wife Roselene, who was eight months pregnant with their fifth child. He arrived in the United States as a political refugee on Jan. 3, 1992.

It would be more than a decade before Beaucicot (pronounced Bo-see-co) would be able to return to see his family, and even longer before they would be reunited.” click here for the rest of the article