LifeSpring Haiti Blog
Plans, Pastors & Bubbles…
Posted May 3, 2010 | 0 CommentsThis morning over coffee we spent time talking about some of the details of the child sponsorship program. Joline has already bought all the material for the children’s school uniforms for next year (no one can go to school in Haiti without a uniform—it’s a cultural thing). We’re going to give the parents the material and a ticket for a local seamstress to sew the uniforms, then the seamstress can redeem the ticket for cash with us. We’re also going to experiment with buying some classroom sets of books, because most of the kids do not end up with the math or history books they really need. We also talked a little more about the possibility of future feeding programs at the schools. We’ll have to try a pilot program soon, but when we were doing the photos, we saw a lot of soon-to-be first graders with the red hair indicative of malnourishment.
First Grade Photos and a Trip to a Mountain Village
Posted May 1, 2010 | 0 CommentsAPRIL 2010 TRIP May 1, 2010 From Erin Inman Yesterday we went to the school to take pictures of the new incoming first graders and to distribute vitamins to all of the kids in the school. We got to the school in time to watch them line up, say the national anthem and raise the flag. After the anthem the…
Arriving and Getting Started
Posted April 29, 2010 | 0 CommentsToday is Thursday. We arrived in Port au Prince on schedule Tuesday afternoon. On this trip are my wife, Linda, Erin Inman (a good friend from church), and Sally Cook (I met Sally on an airplane a couple years ago, we talked about Haiti, became friends, and here she is with us!).
The Great Adventure
Posted March 9, 2010 | 0 CommentsWell, John and I made it back from Plain Marie (Plen Mah-ree), the furthest into the mountains of the southern peninsula I have been yet. It was quite an adventure, but before I tell you about it, let’s get one thing on the record: this is the most exercise I have EVER had as an adult, and I have been an adult for a very long time now. My partner on this trip, John Frankel, is an athlete, so he excelled; as for me, I would say that I survived very well.
Vitamins for “plis fos”
Posted March 6, 2010 | 7 CommentsYesterday we took Pastor Ed back to the airport in Jeremie so he could catch the small plane back to Port au Prince and visit the CGGC churches up in the west-central part of the country. When we got back, John and I accompanied Vilex Plaisir (our young Haitian worker here) to distribute vitamins at the Marfranc School (see photos). We went into each classroom, where Vilex