Sacrifice in French or in English is the name of a beautiful piece of land that we were able to purchase with great financial help from our donors in The Netherlands. This is where we will rebuild our orphanage. The expectations are that it will take years before the clean up in Haiti is completed, [...]
Friday, June 25, 2010
Very, very sad news……….last Sunday June 13th 2010 our little Idoris has passed away, at 10.20 AM. Idoris was our little boy who, even though he just had turned 3 last May 17th 2010, looked like a 6 months old baby, because he was severely handicapped. On May 17th 2007 Idoris was left at the [...]
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Since a few weeks some schools have re-opened. The kindergarten Claire Fontaine, where 4 of our kids go to school, Yakime, Luckson, Kettia and Yakime’s younger brother Sylvaince was heavily damaged by the earthquake, unsafe and closed. But since the end of March this school, which used to be walking distance from our orphanage has [...]
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Thursday 29 April 2010: I am madly in Love………………………. with our new car: A great Toyota Granvia minivan, diesel, 4 cylinders, 3 liter engine, imported straight from Japan by a local car-dealer, year 1996, only 80,000 miles on it This car makes such a difference in our life, makes life so much less stressful, [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
As some of you may already know Martin, his mother, three volunteers and myself recently went to Haiti. The plan was to come down so that we could build some emergency shelter for our kids that had been donated by Pacific Domes. Unfortunately due to shipping complications we have not received the domes yet and [...]
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Visiting Haiti has never been easy. After a few trips, though, I had gotten used to the nation’s peculiar blend of chaos and charm. Post-earthquake, the recipe has changed. “Now with Extra Chaos!” is the unfortunate, new reality in Haiti. You would think that the flood of media images would have appropriately set my expectations, [...]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Sunday 28 February 2010: Last night my very good friend Andrew Bigosinski from Cine Institute called me to tell me that there is a whole crew made up of gaffers and grip that came in from New York with a container full of donated generators and other electrical equipment. They call themselves Friends of Cine [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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Monday, February 8, 2010
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 [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday 27 January 2010: Our work in progress. Since yesterday morning we have been very busy with cleaning up our little piece of land, and constructing our new little tent village. Some friends of mine have come to help us with this big job, and Frantz our director, Rochel our security guy and Tizepi have [...]
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday 23 January 2010 ~ Jacmel Haiti When the crew from RTL 4 News was here, they gave us some medical supplies from their travel survival kit. Some of it we can use very well, but other items like blood plasma, and lots of gauze we do not need for the moment. So in the [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Wednesday 20 January 2010 This morning at 6.02 AM a big aftershock that luckily only lasted for about 4 seconds, but everything was shaking a lot. Around 10 AM 2 people from WFP came to see us at the orphanage and were able to tell me that it was a strength 6. Yesterday afternoon we [...]
Jesula was born on April 11th, 2007. At about nine months old her mother passed away from AIDS and Jesula was left at an orphanage. The nuns prayed very hard for Jesula but against their prayers, she tested positive for HIV. Read more about Jesula and her life at Kay Angel →
Thursday, July 22, 2010
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