Saturday 6 February 2010: Over the last 2 days I received many calls from my Dutch friend Geert van der Kolk, via a satellite phone from a boat. He is a journalist, writer who lives in Washington DC. He is also a very good sailor, and has made many trips to Jakmel on his sailboat [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday 25 January 2010: The Dutch media crew from RTL4 that had visited us last friday had promised us to try to get us a big tent from the Dutch marines who have come in to Port au Prince, to help Haiti after the quake. On Sunday I received an e-mail from Martin van Norel [...]
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
After last year’s hurricane season at WeCanBuildanOrphanage the roof of the laundry work area was ripped off completely. Given that money has been tight we decided to do the best we could with the materials we had. What we came up with was fixing the roof with some of our old water damaged floor-mats. I [...]
Meet Little Martin. On a routine visit to a hospital we noticed a little disabled boy in one of the hospital cribs. The boy had been left to fend for himself, he had no identification and his birthday is a mystery. He had been in the hospital for a few days and had been severely neglected: his diapers were soiled and he was covered in lice. No one had taken any notice of this little boy in a few days and we were left with no choice but to bring the little boy home. In honor of one the Kay Angel founders we named the boy “Little” Martin. Read more about Martin →
Monday, February 8, 2010
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