Youseline receives her report card en present from Madame Margaret The school-year is over, summer break has started for our kids. Today at 3 PM all students received their report cards, and found out who passed and who did not. For the 3rd time this past school year Youseline and Melinda finished first of their [...]
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Last thursday March 31 st we have moved Kay Angel into our new “temporary” home. Dave Bird from Calvary Chapels had chosen the color “Peach” for us, when he painted the house last week with his group of volunteers, but to me it looks totally like the Dutch National color ORANGE The house turned out [...]
Thursday, February 3, 2011
The 44′ dome in the back yard of S.O.S Enfants school Right after the earthquake last year Pacific Domes had donated a 36′ and 44′ dome to Kay Angel for our shelter. Unfortunately, transporting those domes from Oregon to Jacmel via Los Angeles, Miami and Port-au-Prince took over seven months despite the help of some [...]
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Now that electricity is back on and the internet signal back in the air,I can send you all a sign of life from Jakmel, Haiti. We have been extremely lucky that TOMAS changed it’s course and passed us much more to the west. At first the prediction was that he would come straight over Jakmel. [...]
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
“LAKAY SE LAKAY” “Lakay se lakay” is Kreyol for “Home Sweet Home.” It is such a wonderful feeling to be home again after 2 months. Traveling this distance has been somewhat a challenge. Since I cannot walk fast or far yet I received wheel chair assistance to wheel me in and out of the plane. [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
As some of you may already know Martin, his mother, three volunteers and myself recently went to Haiti. The plan was to come down so that we could build some emergency shelter for our kids that had been donated by Pacific Domes. Unfortunately due to shipping complications we have not received the domes yet and [...]
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Visiting Haiti has never been easy. After a few trips, though, I had gotten used to the nation’s peculiar blend of chaos and charm. Post-earthquake, the recipe has changed. “Now with Extra Chaos!” is the unfortunate, new reality in Haiti. You would think that the flood of media images would have appropriately set my expectations, [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
Friday 12 February 2010: Today it is exactly 1 month ago that we had the 7.1 earthquake. The government together with all churches has called for a 3-day “conge”. Conge means “day off” in Kreyol. This to remember all people that have died, but also all the people that survived but now live in very [...]
Monday, February 8, 2010
Saturday 6 February 2010: Over the last 2 days I received many calls from my Dutch friend Geert van der Kolk, via a satellite phone from a boat. He is a journalist, writer who lives in Washington DC. He is also a very good sailor, and has made many trips to Jakmel on his sailboat [...]
Monday, February 8, 2010
Thursday 4 February 2010: The Canadian navy has visited us several times this week, to come and scout the need for toilets. We do need that very much, so they located a good spot across the street from us and marked the area. The next day a big bulldozer came by to dig the hole. [...]
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday 31 January 2010: The last 2 days I spend going to the bank and back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! None of the banks in Jakmel have opened their doors yet, since the earthquake. Our bank, BNC bank has big cracks in the walls and word has it that this bank might stay closed for some time. The Western [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday 27 january 2010: This afternoon we have moved into our new home. It has been a lot of hard work, the last 2 days setting up this new home, but it looks and feels great. We made it that we have shade the whole day long over our new playground. And our kids are [...]
Idoris was found May 17th, 2009 on the doorstep of Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, located in the northern part of Haiti. The doctors there estimated that he was between 1 and 3 days old when we found him. After examining him the doctors determined that Idoris had tetanus and is disabled as a result of this infection. Read more about Idoris →
Saturday, July 9, 2011
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