Now that electricity is back on and the internet signal back in the air,I can send you all a sign of life from Jakmel, Haiti. We have been extremely lucky that TOMAS changed it’s course and passed us much more to the west. At first the prediction was that he would come straight over Jakmel. [...]
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 [...]
Monday, February 8, 2010
Saturday 6 February 2010: Over the last 2 days I received many calls from my Dutch friend Geert van der Kolk, via a satellite phone from a boat. He is a journalist, writer who lives in Washington DC. He is also a very good sailor, and has made many trips to Jakmel on his sailboat [...]
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 19, 2010
Luke, one of our founders, arrived in Jacmel today with an SUV full of antibiotics, painkillers, IV fluids and other critically-needed medical supplies. Late Sunday night, he and a friend arrived in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. On Monday, they purchased an entire drugstore’s supply of prescription medicine, stuffed them into an [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
This morning I went to see our Dr Ernest, who also works at Hopital St Michel. Luckily he is fine, and he is working so very hard to treat all the wounded people. I went to make an in-kind donation from our orphanage to the hospital. Gala had brought us so many oxygen masks and [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
From Lia: “Can I ask you guys to please continue to post my e-mails since it is impossible for me to do from down here. But I am telling everybody to continue to follow out story via the blog, I want to stay in touch with everybody but do not have the time to respond [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
As many of you know, last month Gala from our office went to Haiti to visit our kids. Thanks to so many donors Gala did not go empty handed. Gala in the Topanga office When Gala arrived in Haiti she had four extremely large bags filled with everything from medical equipment, to toys, to clothing. [...]
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, November 13, 2010
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