Last wednesday the school’s Easter Holiday started. An original English gun from the late 1700′s at Fort Jacques The day after, on Thursday I took the 5 older kids on an excursion to the only Zoo in Haiti, in Fermathe, Kenskoff and the historical Fort Jacques high in the mountains above Port au Prince. This [...]
Thursday, February 3, 2011
The 44′ dome in the back yard of S.O.S Enfants school Right after the earthquake last year Pacific Domes had donated a 36′ and 44′ dome to Kay Angel for our shelter. Unfortunately, transporting those domes from Oregon to Jacmel via Los Angeles, Miami and Port-au-Prince took over seven months despite the help of some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tuesday 19 January 2010: The last 2 nights we have slept inside the TV room of the hotel across the street. There is a rain front coming over us since Saturday night, so we are lucky the hotel lets us use their space, but we are not able to stay there. They will need their [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Friday 25 December 2009 Today we celebrated x-mas with all our kids. Last night after all our kids went to sleep, I had decorated the dining room with balloons, and put all the x-mas presents in the basket. When our kids woke up this morning they had the surprise of their lives. They were soooo [...]
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Saturday 19 December 2009 Our triplets are getting ready for the holiday season!!!!!!!!!!! For weeks they have been asking for hair extensions, so the other day I went to the market and bought the hair and today they spend all day getting their hair braided with the extensions. I had asked Nerlande, one of our [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
Friday 18 december 2009 This morning at 9 AM we were invited at Pazapa with Martin for his school x-mas party. There were performances by some of the kids, and lots of singing and clapping hands together, and ofcourse x-mas presents and a nice lunch. Martin has x-mas vacation until January 12, 2010. Until that [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
Wednesday 16 December 2009 Today at 2 PM was the x-mas party for our kids that attend Claire Fontaine kindergarden. The dress-code was red, green and white. All 4 children were very excited to go to their first school x-mas party. We were right on time, but most of the other kids were not brought [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Monday 7 December 2009 As you all know from the money Gala Calisto donated to us earlier this year in April we had bought a TV and had a boss make a special child-safe shelf for the TV in the playroom At that time there was still a little money left, HTG1600.- which I have [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
After school last week Lia let the triplets go down the street by themselves to visit Eliane, our nanny and her new baby while the girls were still in their school uniforms. We decided it was time to experiment with the girls going a short distance on their own. Eliane lives just down the street [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
Last week we decided to and visit Amawanda to see how she was doing with her family. We kept it a surprise visit so we would be able to get a true picture of how she really is being taken care of. Given the long drive Lia had in front of her she decided to [...]
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 →
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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