School visit

Today I again had an opportunity to travel up in the mountains to visit a little remote school. The road that we traveled on to get there a very rocky rough road along the side of the mountain.
We went to gather information about the school and visited 2 classes, the preschool class and the grade 6 classroom. The small children were very cute. It was sort of sad to see 68 kids all squished into their tiny classroom, but the children were all happy to be there and to have the opportunity to learn.
I think that I would have a hard time learning at that school though because right next to the preschool is the grade 6 classroom. When we were in that classroom we could barely hear the students talking to us because the preschool children were loudly reciting their lessons. But I guess it is all a part of education here.

Visiting a little Haitian hut

Yesterday I (Deborah) had a chance to go visit a rural mountain family. I was collecting information for an upcoming BHM newsletter and needed to get some information about a little girl who needs a sponsor.
We picked up her sister from school and then went to find the little girl. The little girl had been sick that morning so we tried to find her and her mother at a local clinic, but she wasn't there. We went to the home anyway and it was very eye opening to see the conditions that this family lives is. There are 7 girls and 2 boys in the family. The boys have moved out, but all the girls still live at home along with 3 cousins and their grandfather. All these people sleep in one small room that had 2 single beds in it. One wall of thier house had fallen down so they can't use the other bedroom of their house.
The father wasn't there since he was in his garden which was 1 hour's walk away. That was the closest place that he could find to rent land for a garden.
Even amongst such poverty the family members that we talked with were very happy and content. They didn't beg us for things, which was amazing. It was very evident that the family has made many sacrifices to send their children to school.
It was challenging to me to see this and then to think about all that I have, and to really ask myself if I am content with what I have. Also to thank God for all that He has given me and then realizing that God has so richly blessed me, that I need to share with others around me.
These pictures are of the older sister with her grandpa in the family bedroom. The other is the sister in the kitchen.

Clinic Dedication

Since we have a previous post, from a long time ago, refering to the clinic construction I thought that it would be a good idea to give a little update on that project.
Today the Clinic was officially dedicated and they are going to start using it on Monday.
Kyrk worked very hard to have it completed for today, and it looks great!
These pictures are: The outside of the new clinic, the dedication ceremony, and then some of the people going through the clinic to see what it looks like following the dedication ceremony.

Snow in Haiti

The kids enjoyed the snow so much that when I cleaned out the freezer they wanted to play with the "snow." This is as close as we can get to snow in Haiti.

Okay, we give in and actually posted again

After reading some of the comments, we thought that we should actually write something so that we are no longer accused of being the laziest bloggers.
Well I don't want to over exert myself on this blog and should gradually ease back into this great blogging world.
Stay tuned for more coming soon.