Tuesday April 13, 2010
Posted by MTH-Team | Posted in April 2010 | Posted on 04-13-2010 6:29 PM
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Today began with fresh challenges as we woke to a courtyard with many large puddles due to the downpour that occurred as we slept. This meant that the holes which had been dug for the footings of the new bridge were newly filled with water and mud and would have to be cleared before beginning any further work on this project. Following a morning of productive work by the Haitian crew the one footing was clear of the “contaminants” by lunch time. The crew has been working on tying and placing rebar in the footing since lunch and hope have pushed dinner time back to finish placing and tying so the concrete can be mixed and poured tomorrow morning. In addition to this challenge, we were made aware that we were low on diesel fuel such that we would only have enough to run the generator for one full day and the campus vehicles were almost empty. You would think this would be no issue, but we have been told that the gas stations are currently out of diesel with no report on when they will have more. Currently we have located a temporary supply that will last one or two days; please pray that we will locate more fuel to be able to run the generator and be able to hold mobile medical clinics and be able to assess the sponsorship programs at the other schools.
Another part of the construction team has been working with a Haitian crew to dig the footing for the concrete pad that will be the base for a “prototype house” that MTH Canada is planning to use in the near future. Using this prototype house design a local crew of Haitians will build multiple copies of it in the coming months and years to provide shelter for a number of Haitian families. The sponsorship team continued to distribute your gift boxes to the children at the local school in Messailler as well as take updated photos and determine which children had been displaced by the earthquake. They also documented and took photos of all of the children that are staying in the orphanage at this time; they are looking to get sponsorship for these children so the orphanage can financially sustain itself and provide care and education for these children. We were also able to provide a medical and dental examination for each of these children and for the most part they are in excellent health which is likely a direct result of the excellent care they are receiving at the orphanage. A woman who attended the medical clinic today had been displaced to Cabaret from Port-au-Prince with three of her children due to the earthquake. This woman had a few fractured ribs, had no shelter whatsoever and no food. The medical team was able to provide her with medication, a tarp for shelter, some food and money and were able to find sponsors for her three children!! This is an amazing example of how we are able to touch the lives of those in desperate situations. The medical team also saw an elderly woman with a broken hip and have taken her to a local hospital to receive more advanced medical attention as we do not have the facilities and equipment to deal with this; we intend to see that she gets the care she needs to get her mobile again. We encourage you to leave comments as they provide the team with much support while we are here. Blessings to you all and thanks for your prayers and support. To view photos from Tuesday click here.
Thanks for bigger pictures today! It’s greatly appreciated.
May God provides fuel soon for the team. I hope MTH will consider take the road to solar panel and fuel cell generator in its new constructions and power energy needs because it’s in the long run (long term) more economic and cheapest for MTH and the Haytians. It’s reliable, dependable, and renewable. It is the best way to go for Haiti and in general our planet… Hayti has a dependable sun year around and Hayti doesn’t have a big needs for energy consumption.
Here some helpful links to the board directors, in case MTH hesited to go solar…
Bloggers are welcome to click too!
http://www.dbkpowergenerators.com/
http://www.powerauthority.on.ca/Page.asp?PageID=751&SiteNodeID=252
Thanks to team! I keep you in my prayers and thoughts…
Rebecca
Thanks to the team!
The fuel for a solar based fuel cells generator is sunlight and water!
Solar PV Energy Explained
Solar energy is plentiful, essentially free and very environmentally friendly. It requires very little upkeep once the initial installation is completed.
http://www.powerauthority.on.ca/Page.asp?PageID=122&ContentID=4037&SiteNodeID=252&BL_ExpandID=
Have good night all! keep the good work!
Have a good night!
Keep up the good work guys! Miss calling you mom
See you when Lincoln turns ONE!! Hope you’re having a great time! p.s. dad, your tan looks like it could use some work – i hope the sun shines for you guys!!! xoxo
Hi Daddy! How are you? Feeling good? I hope so. I miss you tucking me in everynight, and I think mom has gone crazy! Yesterday she kept singing Happy Birthday over and over again! I still love her. Having fun down there? Or are you burnt already? Counting down till Saturday!
Lots of love: Macko
WAVING FLAG( HAITI’S SONG)
When I get older
I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom
Just like a wavin flag
Born from a throne
Older than Rome
But violent prone
Poor people zone
But it’s my home
All I have known
Where I got grown
but now its gone
Out of the darkness
in came the carnage
threatening my very survival
Fractured my streets
and broke all my dreams
Feels like defeat to wretched retreat
So we strugglin’
Fighting to eat
And we wonderin’
If we’ll be free
We cannot wait for some faithful day
it’s too far away so right I’ll say
When I get older
I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom
Just like a waving flag
(And then it goes back x3)
Ahhho ahhho ahhho
So many wars, settling scores
All that we’ve been through
and now there is more
I hear them say love is the way
Love is the answer that’s what they say
But were not just dreamers
of broken down grievers
Our hand will reach us
and
This can’t control us
We gon pick it up even though we still struggling
Au nom de la survie (In the name of survival)
and we wondering
Battant pour nos vie (Fighting for our lives)
We patiently wait
for some other day
thats too far away so right now we say
When I get older I will get stronger
they’ll call me freedom
just like the waving flag
(then it goes back x3)
Uhh – well alright
How come when the media stops covering
and there’s a little help from the government
we forget about the people still struggling
and assume that its really all love again, nahh
see we don’t have to wait for things to break apart
if you weren’t involved before it’s never too late to start
you probably think that it’s too far to even have to care
well take a look at where you live what if it happened there?
you have to know the urge to make a change lies within
and we can be the reason that they see their flag rise again
When I get older
I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom
Just like a wavin’ flag
and then it goes back
and then it goes back
Then it goes back
When I get older
When I get older
I will be stronger
just like a waving flag.
WE look at the people AT THE PICTURES and see some fam. sigths .Susan have you the family with the twins they should now be about two.Love you all and we are praying for you.
Well, Finally John—I can watch my Dancing with the Stars and American Idol in peace this week, with no side comments from you???!!!
If you miss watching it, you’ll just have to grab a girl and improvise, honey!!!
Love ya—just me.
Hi Mom! How are you doing? We’re thinking of you lots and proud of the heart and effort everyone is putting forward to make a difference in Haiti. Life is good here. Plants are coming up in our garden that we need your help identifying! Looking forward to your stories. Love you lots! Take care…Ryan & Lisa
Hi Dad. I hope you have gotten some sleep by now. Keep on smiling!. By the time you have read this I will have written my first exam, and I think I’m going insane. (well I guess I would fit right in with mom and mack) but I can do it. Can’t wait until I see you saturday! Enjoy the sun while you can! Love you lots
dear Cheryl, & your wonderful team,
hi! it’s so good to see you in a photo and although it must be really difficult, we know it is all worth it and nothing is in vain when it’s for Christ… Kindness is never wasted on Him
“The only way to achieve true justice is to change people’s hearts first–and then they will joyfully share their wealth.”
-St. John the Golden Mouth
I read this in a friend’s blog tonight, and thought it was fitting. Thank you all — each of you — (and Cheryl, who radiate’s God’s love day after day!) for your hearts of gold.
We love you! God bless ~ and keep joyfully sharing the love that you’ve received!
Hey John, I know you are there somewhere, but I haven’t seen you yet! Hope you are doing well and able to accomplish what you are there to do.
HI All! Looks like lots of work is getting done in spite of rain. Keep it up!
You are all in our prayers. May God bless you and all the work that is being done.
Dearest family:
As usuall your work and support of the Haitains is awesome.
Keep up your labour of love and God bless
Love you all
Brenda and Randy
Just to let you know we are thinking of you and really appreciate all the work you are doing…mau God bless all your efforts. Enjoy the weather!! Take care!
To: The members of mission to Haiti including, but not limited to, Sponsership and medical, but more specifically the labour intensive aspect of the work of God, and to narrow it down even more, the one you all refer to as “old man Jonny K” (Relax Kiers, I was talking about the Klasen Brand of Jonny K) It looks as though you must be working your tail off because you are smiling in most of the pictures and I’ve only ever seen you smile when you work your tail off….. that and the shade must be treating you well too because the Jonny K I know would match Lionnel right about now. I hope Glenn isn’t bossing you around too much cuz I know how you get all pouty when you get bossed around. P.S, your Bike runs great.
Hi mom.