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 [...]
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
After last year’s hurricane season at WeCanBuildanOrphanage the roof of the laundry work area was ripped off completely. Given that money has been tight we decided to do the best we could with the materials we had. What we came up with was fixing the roof with some of our old water damaged floor-mats. I [...]
Friday, May 29, 2009
This week at WeCanBuildanOrphanage we were faced with a case of “necessity being the mother of invention.” Our school teacher called in sick, so we decided to give our triplets (Youseline, Estania, and Melinda…these are our three oldest girls not real triplets) a different form of education. Estania How do you teach three eager girls [...]
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, November 2, 2009
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