We are anticipating some good stuff out of this trip! We are so blessed to be friends with Children’s International Lifeline (Donald Curtis) and Northwest Haiti Christian Mission (Janeil Owen). Donald took the team to see some buildings for a prosthetics facility in PAP. We took a lot of photos and video footage of the flattened buildings and massive destruction in Port-Au-Prince. We have been praying for God to show all of us clearly what He wants to get done during our trip to help the children of Haiti. The devastation was incredible and it was amazing to see these buildings and think that there are still people entombed inside of the rubble.
We spent a good portion of the day assessing potential buildings to house a prosthetics and orthotics facility in Port-Au-Prince. We saw five buildings, at least two that would work for this project. The up side on both of these locations was the fact that they had second floors with rooms that could house Americans and others that would be fitting the Haitians with the prostheses.
After a long day we headed back to Children’s International Lifeline (CIL) and visited one of the outlying and very poor tent cities. Orphan’s Promise was able to team up with CIL to provide camping tents to house many of the families living there. In most tent cities, the people are living in makeshift coverings made from sticks with plastic draped over to provide some sort of protection from the elements. Now, 4 months after the earthquake, the plastic has holes in it and in many cases torn and barely providing any sort of covering. The reality is that many of these children have lost their parents and other family members as a result of the earthquake and have been relocated to these primitive communities away from all that is comforting to them.
Precious children like Christa, just barely 1 year old but with the stature of a 6 month old, living in her tent with her 16 year old mom… more to come when we return to the mission.
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