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Today was a great day! I went to the orphanage first to deliver/pick up some items. I found the little girls singing a great song: Satan Has Lost the Battle! It was great to hear their little voices declaring the truth in song! They were so full of joy!
Then I met up with Cameron and Riley, two guys from Mission Lazarus in Honduras. They just wanted to tag along with me while I did whatever I had to do. We went to the refugee camp that JT has set up over across the street from the Delmas 28 church/school site. Some Catholic Sisters are allowing the use of their school yard for the camp. When I walked into the compound I was almost tackled by John Kelly Chery, one of our sponsored children at Delmas. We had not yet seen each other since the earthquake. John Kelly just would not let go – he just kept me in a bear hug. Finally he let go and grabbed my hand and said, “Come here, look at this”. He was very excited. We walked across the courtyard and he pointed up into the sky. Way, way up in the sky was a tiny home-made kite. He had made it out of a black plastic grocery sack, some thread, and I couldn’t tell what the tail was made of. We took a whole series of pictures of the kite. He kept reeling it in closer so it would show in the photo. Finally after bringing the kite way down, we got it.
Also staying at the camp are several other sponsored children. Many were not there when we visited, but we saw Daphca Alexis Fleurissaint, John Kelly Chery, and Rudolph Jerome. Kenny Junior Chery is at the shelter too, but I did not see him.
The people staying at this camp are church members, some of their family members and neighbors. They are fed a light meal in the morning and then a meal of rice & beans in the evening. The group was pretty orderly while receiving their food. Jeantyrard is the “juice-master”. He mixes the juice and serves it to each person. He seemed to really enjoy t
his role! The folks from Go Missions had sent a lot of blankets donated from American Airlines and some clothing. I took what the orphanage needed first and brought the rest for church family. There was not an orderly line for this distribution, but it wasn’t totally out of control either. Blankets were given to women with children first and then to others.
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Notes on the Ground
Update 1/29/2010
By 8:00 AM I was feverishly collecting more information to be added to the “pile” that is really a small mountain! Manna Global made contact with us and after many phone calls and logistics juggling, we sent Gusman with a truck driver to pick up what they had to share with us.
Tim went into Thomazeau again and scarfed up as much food supply as possible. In the meantime, the Healing Hands International scouting team came by and we took them over to the orphanage to meet with Jeantyrard. It looks like JT will get some aid for the churches from them. Yea!
I left the orphanage and went to the UN headquarters near the airport where I met with someone from Counterpart International, an organization that is helping to coordinate some shipments through HFHC from a church in Arkansas. We will hopefully have some relief goods to distribute from that in about 2-3 weeks (or so). I also got some good information on logistics meetings at the UN. I’ll start attending some of those on Friday morning, hopefully.
As I was driving home, I was thinking about the little lady who came to the clinic we held in Thomazeau on Sunday. She was one of those bright spots in these last 2 weeks of darkness. She came in, sat down, and announced that she was 105 years old. She then proceeded to tell us which president came into office when she was 3 months old. She was a cute little toothless thing! Steve came over and took her picture. He showed her the picture and she said, “Now there’s a really young lady!” Then my sister, Laura came and snapped a quick, candid shot. The lady made Laura come back and do it over because she was not properly posed for the first shot. She was so funny! She had fallen on her face and chest trying to run out of her house during the quake. Fortunately she was not seriously injured. I think she was the most enjoyable patient we had – at least for that day!
Then I met up with Cameron and Riley, two guys from Mission Lazarus in Honduras. They just wanted to tag along with me while I did whatever I had to do. We went to the refugee camp that JT has set up over across the street from the Delmas 28 church/school site. Some Catholic Sisters are allowing the use of their school yard for the camp. When I walked into the compound I was almost tackled by John Kelly Chery, one of our sponsored children at Delmas. We had not yet seen each other since the earthquake. John Kelly just would not let go – he just kept me in a bear hug. Finally he let go and grabbed my hand and said, “Come here, look at this”. He was very excited. We walked across the courtyard and he pointed up into the sky. Way, way up in the sky was a tiny home-made kite. He had made it out of a black plastic grocery sack, some thread, and I couldn’t tell what the tail was made of. We took a whole series of pictures of the kite. He kept reeling it in closer so it would show in the photo. Finally after bringing the kite way down, we got it.
As I was driving home, I was thinking about the little lady who came to the clinic we held in Thomazeau on Sunday. She was one of those bright spots in these last 2 weeks of darkness. She came in, sat down, and announced that she was 105 years old. She then proceeded to tell us which president came into office when she was 3 months old. She was a cute little toothless thing! Steve came over and took her picture. He showed her the picture and she said, “Now there’s a really young lady!” Then my sister, Laura came and snapped a quick, candid shot. The lady made Laura come back and do it over because she was not properly posed for the first shot. She was so funny! She had fallen on her face and chest trying to run out of her house during the quake. Fortunately she was not seriously injured. I think she was the most enjoyable patient we had – at least for that day!
