Sunday 28 February 2010: Last night my very good friend Andrew Bigosinski from Cine Institute called me to tell me that there is a whole crew made up of gaffers and grip that came in from New York with a container full of donated generators and other electrical equipment. They call themselves Friends of Cine [...]
Monday, February 8, 2010
Sunday 7 February 2010: Today we were visited by a group from TCAT. Through my friend Joe Duplan they had heard about us and donated 5 FilterPure clay water-filters with special silver lining baked into the clay to the orphanage. Please check out their website at: http://www.filterpurefilters.org We will now be able to filter any [...]
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 [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
Sunday 17 january 2010 Tonight we will sleep indoors again. Last night we had a rough night, there was a lot of rain all night long, very cold, we all got wet. Today we organized ourselves across the street into the “living-room” of the hotel. This morning we took the smaller cribs out of the [...]
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 [...]
Monday, November 2, 2009
As we mentioned last week in our blog post, we hired a boss to do a few repairs around the orphanage and one of the repairs was fixing the roof for our laundry area. We decided to do this last Sunday, the only day the laundry ladies don’t wash clothes so that the work could [...]
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. [...]
Friday, October 16, 2009
Check out the complete program to our Oktoberfest Sunday!!! You are not going to want to miss it! Oktoberfest Program Silent Auction We can’t wait to see you all!!! And you can still purchase tickets on the Oktoberfest page, or you can but them at the door. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE Permanent link to [...]
Monday, October 12, 2009
This Sunday the 18th, is Oktober Family Fest to benefit the Schmitt Family orphanage, and we thought we would give you a sneak peak of our cool festival logo! We are so excited that we just can’t wait to show you! One of our amazing volunteers Dana created this logo for us and we know [...]
Friday, October 9, 2009
Friday was an early start, and was non stop! The first thing we did was head out to the orphanage to watch the triplets during their in-house school for a bit. It was wonderful to see what a positive experience school is for them. When the school day was finished for the girls they decided [...]
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 →
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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