Today part of the Topanga WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com crew is off to Haiti, on a Haiti Unites mission (you can see some of the organizations we will be visiting on our Haiti Unites page). We are traveling all over Haiti over the next few weeks and will be sure to keep you updated on all of our [...]
Monday, July 6, 2009
Name: Luckson In our care since: January 4, 2008 Birthday: June 20, 2005 Status: HIV positive at birth today no sign of HIV Meet Luckson, the ninth child to come to our orphanage. Luckson was born on June 20th 2005 to teenage parents in the city of Jacmel. When he was only one year old [...]
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
When Gala visited Jacmel in April, there were the obvious-things she wanted to bring, books, crayons, toys, and clothes. But after a bit of thought she had another idea, she wanted to bring the kids a DVD player so they could watch movies. The idea came from Gala's childhood. She started to learn french by the french cartoons her mother used to play for Gala and her sister. She figured if it worked for her, maybe it would work for our kids in the orphanage
Monday, May 18, 2009
So now that you have met our three oldest girls I’d like to tell you about a wonderful program we started in April. Showing off their cameras: Youseline On April 1st my friend Deb Jones and I, arrived in Haiti. We were armed with all kinds of donations that our local community gathered together, including [...]
Friday, May 15, 2009
One of our latest volunteers to visit the Haiti and lend a hand was Deb. We were so grateful to have Deb travel down to Haiti. Deb is a fabulous photographer and she not only gave photography lessons to the kids but she also took some magnificent shots while she was down there. Take a [...]
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
This week our lives were made much easier by an awesome volunteer. Chester, a sophomore at a local high school was nice enough to help Gala our resident Rock Star import over 500 new photos onto our Flickr page. As many of you know Gala just returned form Haiti with some magnificent photos. We wanted [...]
Saturday, May 9, 2009
As many of you know, last month Gala from our office went to Haiti to visit our kids. Thanks to so many donors Gala did not go empty handed. Gala in the Topanga office When Gala arrived in Haiti she had four extremely large bags filled with everything from medical equipment, to toys, to clothing. [...]
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, September 14, 2009
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