Saturday 28 Maart 2010 The day before yesterday, thursdayevening the big sailboat from Holland “Tres Hombres” had finally arrived in PAP after sailing for about 6 weeks. Arjan van der Veen, the captain called me to inform me that they were not able to dock in Jakmel, and so if I could come and meet [...]
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 [...]
Friday, November 6, 2009
We were finally getting settled into Haiti today and we had quite a few meetings to get through. We started with Art Creation Foundation and it was awesome to see what the kids were doing. I would equate it to a Boys and Girls Club in the US. They do not go to school there [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
Lia recently hired a Boss (this is what they call a carpenter/repair-man in Haiti) named Frito for some repairs around the orphanage. While she had access to Frito she decided to see if she could strike a deal with him to build a true school bench for the triplets. They have been working so hard [...]
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 [...]
Monday, October 26, 2009
Since the beginning of this new school-year our triplets have been begging Lia to find a school for them to attend outside the orphanage. The reason they want to attend school outside the orphanage this year in particular, is 4 of our other kids are in school outside and they get to wear a school-uniform. [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Last week Lia took Estania to Port-au-Prince to have an x-ray of her thorax, and meet with Dr. Pilie, the cardiologist. Because Estania was already scheduled for an appointment with Dr. Pilie to look at her heart, we decided to also ask for his medical opinion on her upcoming ear operation with Dr. Monsanto, in [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wilky, our psychologist had to cancel the triplets session this past Friday and asked Lia if she could bring the girls Sunday afternoon instead. Lia figured she might as well take some more kids and a nanny with her and go to the beach in Jacmel while the girls were in their session. This is [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Since Lia’s return to the orphanage from Holland the kids have been begging to go out in her car, especially Yakime and Luckson. So yesterday we went to visit KROMA (a local Jacmel home for street kids) to play soccer with the kids. Some of the kids are getting really big, a few of them [...]
Friday, August 21, 2009
Earlier this month Lia found some time to go and visit the Sisters of Charity. She decided to take the triplets and Ambroise with her. As you may remember from the story about the Sisters of Charity visiting us at WeCanBuildanOrphanage, all 3 of our girls have spent time with the Sisters, and they all [...]
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 →
Saturday, April 10, 2010
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