Last thursday March 31 st we have moved Kay Angel into our new “temporary” home. Dave Bird from Calvary Chapels had chosen the color “Peach” for us, when he painted the house last week with his group of volunteers, but to me it looks totally like the Dutch National color ORANGE The house turned out [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
In 2 days, on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 May 2010 we build a temp house with the help of Dave Bird from Calvary Chapel and his group of 12 volunteers. For weeks now the rainy season is in full gear. Lots of heavy rains, wind and too many problems for all of us who are [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Visiting Haiti has never been easy. After a few trips, though, I had gotten used to the nation’s peculiar blend of chaos and charm. Post-earthquake, the recipe has changed. “Now with Extra Chaos!” is the unfortunate, new reality in Haiti. You would think that the flood of media images would have appropriately set my expectations, [...]
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
Saturday 20 February 2010: Ever since the earthquake happened I have been wanting to talk about our staff, and show you all their damaged or totally destroyed houses as well. It took me until today to finally find a moment to write about them, and also collecting photo’s of their homes to show you. Elmas [...]
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 31, 2010
Sunday 31 January 2010: The last 2 days I spend going to the bank and back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! None of the banks in Jakmel have opened their doors yet, since the earthquake. Our bank, BNC bank has big cracks in the walls and word has it that this bank might stay closed for some time. The Western [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday 27 january 2010: This afternoon we have moved into our new home. It has been a lot of hard work, the last 2 days setting up this new home, but it looks and feels great. We made it that we have shade the whole day long over our new playground. And our kids are [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
TRANSLATED FROM DUTCH TO ENGLISH Arjan van der Veen of the Commercial Boats sailing from Den Helder we got the offer to be shipping goods to Haiti, with the schooner brig “Tres Hombres”. Soon the 28th day because they would all leave. Lia had been specifically stated that we currently need them and so we [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday 25 January 2010: The Dutch media crew from RTL4 that had visited us last friday had promised us to try to get us a big tent from the Dutch marines who have come in to Port au Prince, to help Haiti after the quake. On Sunday I received an e-mail from Martin van Norel [...]
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 →
Saturday, April 9, 2011
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