Thursday morning we got up and started with packing two trailers for
teams that are coming in next week. These trailers hold everything that
they need to head out into the mountain villages to put roofs on
schools and churches. So we unloaded, checked, refilled and counted:
water bottles, cots, pillows, nails, screws, bolts ect. it was hot
already in the morning!
Once the trailers were finished, we headed to tour the domestic
center. This is a domestic school where women enroll to learn hygiene,
family health, child care skills, family economics and such. They also
learn how to make patterns and sew clothing by hand and treadle sewing
machines. They also learn embroidery and other sewing hand crafts. The
women who graduate these courses and do good work are granted "jobs".
They come into the center and receive a project to take home to
complete, when completed they bring them back and get paid upon
inspection. These items are then for sale in their boutique and in the
open houses that are offered through churches here in the states. The
supplies are purchased through proceeds and from those sent to them from
the states. Like so much of the MEBSH programs this enables the
Haitian people and helps them improve themselves, not try to convert
them into western culture.
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| Where they check out and check in projects. |
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| one of the classrooms |
Then, we went to the orphanage that is near Tim and Joan's house.
There are children that actually live there and there are also some who
come there for the day for food and a place to be.
The children that live there have either been abandoned by parents
unable to care for them or have nobody to care for them (no Parents
living). The children there get their basic needs met and schooling.
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| the new second story |
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| These holes are in the cement counter top. They cook with charcoal in them. |
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They were so much fun! We gave them t-shirts that a VBS had painted for
them, a new soccer ball and took their pictures (they Loved getting pics
taken! )
