Heading Home

Thursday we head back to Canada for ten days to take care of some business.  We likely won't be blogging, but will land back here on the 25th with two more teams and will resume then.

Distribution Day

Today is one of the days when monies that are donated for the various funds are distributed throughout the ministries.  Pastor Archonge has gone to the different schools in the area where children are sponsored to pay their school fees.  Lucianna has purchased and packaged rice to give to some widows in need.  I had the priviledge of taking their photo after receiving their bags of rice.  They were very excited to see themselves in the picture on the camera.  The lady in the green kept pointing to herself and saying, 'belle, belle' - meaning 'beautiful'!  All the ladies had a good chuckle.  Lucianna is in the back in the yellow dress.  She is the head housekeeper for us and a real sweetheart.

A young boy receives new jeans and shirt from his sponsor

 

 

New Arrivals

We welcomed two teams yesterday..........

The Crossroads Team from Red Deer, AB

The Saskatchewan Nurses Medical Team
This team is mostly from southern Sask. with a couple joining from Ontario and one from Manitoba.  This is a group shot with the tranlators and Haitian medical staff just before opening the cinic today.

Village

We often go for afternoon walks around the village just outside the walls of where we live. It is fun to get to know our neighbors, and it also keeps us aware of where we are and why we are here....

This home has a fence made of sticks with a coragated tin gate for privacy.

These are a couple of typical homes near by.  We have visited with the families that live in them.  They are happy, contented people - we leave smiling.....

Children's Village Progress

The first duplex parged

The foundation for the 2nd duplex

The children's village is progressing nicely. The floor for the 2nd duplex will be poured within a few days.

Grand Goave

There is a large river bed on the east side of Grand Goave and many people lived beside it until Hurricane Sandy ripped through the country. Many people lived here and it was lush with many trees. Now there are just a handful of houses left - badly damaged by Sandy. Approximately 6 people from Grand Goave lost their lives during the hurricane.

Cool Dudes!

It is unusual to see Haitians wearing eye glasses.  To them it is a novel fashion item! Sometimes children will approach us and ask us for our glasses.  Someone donated hundreds of pairs of frames with either no lenses in them or the clear plastic lenses.

Last week, during the youth conference, when we had 500 young people here, one of the ladies decided to give some of them away for fun. She was thinking a box or two, but word spread quickly and pretty soon she had most all of them all around her wanting a pair. This is a week later and they are still wearing them!

 

The white frames were especially popular.........