Last Monday was the first day of school for 4 of our kids; Luckson, Kettia, Yakime,and Sylvaince. Lia was asked by the direction of the school to not bring the kids to school herself. Although this has been a difficult pill to swallow we understand the stigma HIV has in this country and we do [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wilky, our psychologist had to cancel the triplets session this past Friday and asked Lia if she could bring the girls Sunday afternoon instead. Lia figured she might as well take some more kids and a nanny with her and go to the beach in Jacmel while the girls were in their session. This is [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Since Lia’s return to the orphanage from Holland the kids have been begging to go out in her car, especially Yakime and Luckson. So yesterday we went to visit KROMA (a local Jacmel home for street kids) to play soccer with the kids. Some of the kids are getting really big, a few of them [...]
Friday, August 28, 2009
Lia, in her typical out of the box fashion found a way to bring our kids to a private beach! She asked a friend of hers, the Boucard Family, if it would be alright to take a field trip to their beach. This way the kids would have a safe beach to play. The beach [...]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Over the last few weeks at WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com we have done a great deal of investigation into Amawanda‘s family to see if it was time to place her back home with her family. Last Thursday we made the decision to do just that, bring her home. This is a preview of Amawanda’s Return Home. Read the [...]
Monday, July 6, 2009
Name: Luckson In our care since: January 4, 2008 Birthday: June 20, 2005 Status: HIV positive at birth today no sign of HIV Meet Luckson, the ninth child to come to our orphanage. Luckson was born on June 20th 2005 to teenage parents in the city of Jacmel. When he was only one year old [...]
Friday, June 19, 2009
Just because it is not always sunny does not mean it is not a good day for the beach! Loading Up the Car Wednesday we took 4 of our kids on a little beach field trip! We loaded Yakime, Luckson, Kettia, and Amawanda in the car, and off we went. As you can see, it [...]
Friday, June 5, 2009
We wanted to take a moment to welcome our new Psychologist Wilky Sanon. Wilky Sanon working with Youseline, Estania and Luckson As you may have guessed or actually know from our past stories, many of our children that did not come to us as babies had quite a traumatic life before they came to live [...]
Friday, May 15, 2009
One of our latest volunteers to visit the Haiti and lend a hand was Deb. We were so grateful to have Deb travel down to Haiti. Deb is a fabulous photographer and she not only gave photography lessons to the kids but she also took some magnificent shots while she was down there. Take a [...]
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 →
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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