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, [...]
Friday, June 25, 2010
Very, very sad news……….last Sunday June 13th 2010 our little Idoris has passed away, at 10.20 AM. Idoris was our little boy who, even though he just had turned 3 last May 17th 2010, looked like a 6 months old baby, because he was severely handicapped. On May 17th 2007 Idoris was left at the [...]
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Since a few weeks some schools have re-opened. The kindergarten Claire Fontaine, where 4 of our kids go to school, Yakime, Luckson, Kettia and Yakime’s younger brother Sylvaince was heavily damaged by the earthquake, unsafe and closed. But since the end of March this school, which used to be walking distance from our orphanage has [...]
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, [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
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 [...]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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 [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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