By Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig
The Western Edition

It’s been almost a month since Haiti was hit with a massive earthquake – knocking a country that was already on its knees, flat on its back.

The outpour of donations, support and more from people from around the globe has been nonstop and has included individual donations, corporate philanthropy, governmental assistance and even drew assistance from the entertainment world, which thanks to the recent “Hope for Haiti” Telethon – organized by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean – raised more than $61 million for the residents of the poverty-ravaged country during the live, two-hour Jan. 22 event.

Some of those residents are relatives of San Francisco’s Mckenzy Germain. The second-generation Haitian was visiting with his mother in New York, making plans to visit his country this summer, when the quake occurred. Now, their trip is up in the air.

Germain, 27, who lived in Haiti from the time he was 5 months old to age 7, has heard from several family members – two uncles, their wives, their children and a few others – but received word that two cousins and their children, seven total, are among the dead, and numerous others are unaccounted for. His 21-year-old sister is part of an envoy to Port-au-Prince, but because the group’s clothes, food and assistance is still sitting on a plane in Atlanta, they are being forced into the same situation as many of those who are seeking help from them.

Germain said he wants to return home to Haiti, but “I don’t have a home to go to.

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