During this busy Christmas season take some time off to think of those who are hungry. With some donations we were able to start serving breakfast at school to the younger children. From our church’s windows, workers in action. Most pictures of this newsletter were taken by Kari Luhtasaari, a professional photographer. She was part…
Every morning, the children gather in the schoolyard. They salute the flag While singing the national anthem of Haiti. Before going to their classrooms, they pray. The children walk in line into their class. While some workers work in the ravine with the pick, the children go to their classrooms in rows. Through the open…
A team of Haitian carpenters, who work for a factory in town that makes prefab homes, built five classrooms in eight days. With the classrooms we have at church, we will be able to accommodate 350 students when school starts again in October in Haiti. Martin Blanchard (left) who owns a billboard company had the…
On a January afternoon I was looking through our gate’s window and I saw Asou (9), a child from our church, sitting on a stone. Abandoned by his parents along with his six siblings, there was emptiness in his eyes, he was hungry, and there seemed to be no purpose in his life. He was…
Very alarming! According to Alain Boinet, CEO and founder of the NGO Solidarity International, in 2020 half of the planet could lack drinkable water. Currently, one quarter of the world wide population does not have access to clean water. The severity of this crisis is compounded by environmental changes. In 2020 Haiti could be one…
Some workers attaching re-bars to make the pillars for the Guerriers children’s home. Yesterday, the Guerriers’ shack was demolished. On the right, their shack after demolition. The dirt house behind their shack was also demolished to give more space to their new home. We are looking for a carpenter for a couple of weeks right…
Almost 80 percent of the world’s population aged 15 years and over is now literate, including more women than ever before, according to new figures from UNESCO. Encouragingly, the figures also show that although women still make up two thirds of the world’s adult illiterates, in all regions they are gaining access to education and…
Picture taken by Rod Meadth, the high school principal at QCS, from his windows on the Delmas Road and Delmas 75 street corner, five minutes from where we live. We woke up this morning, December 8, to the sound of riots. Since this morning, we can hear heavy weapons being shot. It sounds like we…
This past Friday, we had a tropical storm or a tornado during our children church’s service. The storm hit us so suddenly that we did not have the time to seek a shelter. In our yard, two of our big trees were struck down. One of the water tanks fell off the roof. The local…
Schools under tents, not very comfortable with the heat. Once their fear has passed, some of those whose houses did not suffer any damage during the earthquake, went back to live in them. The rainy season has come and it rains hard. We had ten special days of prayer called: Ten Days to Pentecost. Some received…
