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, [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
January 27, 2010 Reprinted from: Financial Advisor Magazine People who give to charities providing earthquake relief in Haiti can claim the donations this year under recently adopted tax provisions, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Taxpayers who itemize deductions on their 2009 return qualify for the special tax relief provision, which was enacted January 22, [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
TRANSLATED FROM DUTCH TO ENGLISH Arjan van der Veen of the Commercial Boats sailing from Den Helder we got the offer to be shipping goods to Haiti, with the schooner brig “Tres Hombres”. Soon the 28th day because they would all leave. Lia had been specifically stated that we currently need them and so we [...]
Monday, January 25, 2010
We used to have 14 children. Amawanda Pierre, born on January 21, 2006, was the third child that came to live with us on October 17, 2007. She was severely malnourished and dehydrated, unable to stand on her legs, maximum 2 days away from dying at the age of 21 months. Amawanda Pierre on October 17, 2007, her first [...]
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
Luke, one of our founders, arrived in Jacmel today with an SUV full of antibiotics, painkillers, IV fluids and other critically-needed medical supplies. Late Sunday night, he and a friend arrived in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. On Monday, they purchased an entire drugstore’s supply of prescription medicine, stuffed them into an [...]
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 [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
From Lia: “Can I ask you guys to please continue to post my e-mails since it is impossible for me to do from down here. But I am telling everybody to continue to follow out story via the blog, I want to stay in touch with everybody but do not have the time to respond [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Hi Everybody, We are all alive and none of us is injured, by a miracle, mere timing kept us alive, a few minutes earlier or later and most of our kids and me would have been dead. But………. we are homeless, The orphanage is still standing, but totally unsafe. A recap of Tuesday 12 January [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Lia finally got through to us this morning and confirmed what we read in a short email last night, that they are all fine. When the earthquake hit, she was at the park at the Town Square with five children. Just before 5PM she decided to head back to the orphanage. “That’s when everything turned upside down,” she [...]
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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