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, [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
Friday 12 February 2010: Today it is exactly 1 month ago that we had the 7.1 earthquake. The government together with all churches has called for a 3-day “conge”. Conge means “day off” in Kreyol. This to remember all people that have died, but also all the people that survived but now live in very [...]
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 [...]
Monday, February 8, 2010
Thursday 4 February 2010: The Canadian navy has visited us several times this week, to come and scout the need for toilets. We do need that very much, so they located a good spot across the street from us and marked the area. The next day a big bulldozer came by to dig the hole. [...]
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday 31 January 2010: The last 2 days I spend going to the bank and back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! None of the banks in Jakmel have opened their doors yet, since the earthquake. Our bank, BNC bank has big cracks in the walls and word has it that this bank might stay closed for some time. The Western [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday 27 january 2010: This afternoon we have moved into our new home. It has been a lot of hard work, the last 2 days setting up this new home, but it looks and feels great. We made it that we have shade the whole day long over our new playground. And our kids are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday 25 January 2010: The Dutch media crew from RTL4 that had visited us last friday had promised us to try to get us a big tent from the Dutch marines who have come in to Port au Prince, to help Haiti after the quake. On Sunday I received an e-mail from Martin van Norel [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 →
Monday, April 19, 2010
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