Man Arranges Burial of 2,500 Haitians

It was in pure horror that the world watched the initial reports of the earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince Haiti and the devastation left in its wake. But one man wasn't going to let the bodies rot in the sun.

A single businessman, watched on CNN as Anderson Cooper found piles of human bodies that had been killed in the earthquake. Meanwhile the minister of information, Marie Laurence Lasseque, denied that bodies were being trucked out of Port-au-Prince and dumped. Daniel Rouzier was appalled by what he was seeing. Rouzier, who owns a car dealership, also works with a group that provides food for Haitians called, "Food for the Poor." Rouzier acknowledged the deep spiritual beliefs of the people of Haiti and to see and hear that the bodies were not being given proper burials was a call to action for Rouzier. Rouzier had an idea: he ordered two front-end loaders, and had his welding shop manufacture five metal crosses. He had a Bishop come and perform the last rights and then he and American priest Richard Frechette, who is also a doctor and cares for the sick Haitians, were sprinkling holy water over the graves and the bodies of those he was to bury. On Friday Rouzier and his crew provided proper burials for roughly 1,500 Haitians; they came back on Saturday and provided burials for another 1,000 people. In total it is estimated that 150,000 people died during the January 12 earthquake. What Rouzier and others found out was that the bodies were bring brought to the city of Titanyan about 45 minutes outside of Port-au-Prince. When talking with CNN Rouzier looked and pointed to the piles of dead people and said, "This, is counter-cultural to Haiti -- the total lack of respect for the dead." Over two days Rouzier has helped to right that wrong.