Pecholes (Welcome)

The record snow and near-record cold greeting them could not be worse, but the welcome is still warm.

A month ago, Guilene Honore was pulled from the rubble of her Port-au-Prince apartment — only to learn that Haitian hospitals couldn’t repair her shattered hip.

On Tuesday, three weeks after undergoing surgery in Miami, she clutched her scarred arm as her wheelchair was pushed through Louisville’s airport, and toward her new home.

Noticeably thin and still recovering, Honore, 24, accompanied by her 58-year-old mother, Alice Michaud, were met by a group of local Haitians and Kentucky Refugee Ministries officials, who are resettling them at least while she recuperates.

The mother and daughter are the first of what could be a dozen or more injured Haitian earthquake victims evacuated to Florida hospitals who are being resettled by Kentucky Refugee Ministries while they recover. Catholic Charities is also awaiting word on whether they’ll be asked to bring dozens of injured Haitians to Louisville in the coming months, officials said.

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