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 [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Lia finally got through to us this morning and confirmed what we read in a short email last night, that they are all fine. When the earthquake hit, she was at the park at the Town Square with five children. Just before 5PM she decided to head back to the orphanage. “That’s when everything turned upside down,” she [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The most wonderful email I’ve ever received just came in: From Andrew Madda… LIA is fine ! her orphanage is destroyed and her 13 kids sleeping on the street.. but they are fine and all together. xx Lia Teaching Orphanage Kids August 2009 I can barely believe it. The news is still sinking in, but [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
It’s agonizing, but we still have no word about the fate of our staff and children. We hope it’s because the cell towers have been knocked out and Internet satellite links are down. Friends I spoke with are in the same position. Arts Creation Foundation had 43 children working on arts projects in their concrete [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
We still haven’t heard from Lia, the director of our orphanage, but we fear the worst. A hotel across the street collapsed completely. No matter what happened to us, this earthquake is a major disaster for so many children, friends and neighbors in our town. Please help our orphanage and the people of Jacmel by [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
News is starting to emerge from Jacmel. 20% of the buildings are reportedly destroyed. 5,000 people spent the night on the local airstrip because they’re homeless or afraid of aftershocks. We still don’t know anything about our kids and staff at the orphanage. After telling myself all night that Jacmel is far from Port-au-Prince and [...]
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Friday 1 January 2010 HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY FROM ALL OF US HERE IN JAKMEL, HAITI. The first of January is a double special day in Haiti, because it is not only the first day of the New Year, it is also Haiti’s independence day. This is a preview of New Year’s Day. Read the [...]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Last Thursday it was Yakime’s 4th birthday! We decided to wait until Saturday afternoon to celebrate his birthday. Our triplets spent Saturday morning making birthday decorations and presents for Yakime. Then at 2 PM it was time for the party. Our first stop was Pasquette, to a private home with a very nice garden where [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Last week Lia took Estania to Port-au-Prince to have an x-ray of her thorax, and meet with Dr. Pilie, the cardiologist. Because Estania was already scheduled for an appointment with Dr. Pilie to look at her heart, we decided to also ask for his medical opinion on her upcoming ear operation with Dr. Monsanto, in [...]
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 →
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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