The picture I have added marks the locations of our schools in Haiti.. as it looks right now we will not be able to support all of them financially this year as the funds have not come in to cover operations.. we are doing the best we can with volunteers to open all the schools but we have very few books, no uniforms, unable to pay the teachers and everything else that goes with the operation of a school... we will keep trying to raise the funds and we know in time funds will come in... we can not give up...
I will be leaving for Haiti next Monday ... we have teams coming in from Lethbridge and Minneapolis.. the team from Lethbridge is a medical team of 11..there are two teams coming in from Minneapolis during the next month, first Chad with a team to help with construction, planting trees and much more and then later Jill will be coming in with a team from Evangelical Free to look at the possibility of helping with the purchasing of some school books in some of the areas where we are needing help... Don & Linda Weisbeck will be coming in to look at the mico loan projects we have going and may get involved in helping run this program.. they are from Brooks.. Don is the former Mayor of Brooks...
We are so gratefully for the teachers and staff of the Catholic School Division from Medicine Hat that are providing schools books for 4 of our schools ... this is in honor of Mr. Love who has been a long time teacher and principal here in Medicine Hat.. he was forced into early retirement because of a health problem and in honor of him they took up a collection from the teachers and staff and with this money will be providing schools books to 1200 of our students... there will be more info and pictures on this down the road... THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE...
We return from Haiti on the 20th of Oct. then returning back again on the 16th of Nov.
Book early if you are wanting to go during this time.. there are a few spots left...
Update on containers... still stuck at the port... hopefully they will be released by the time I get there next week.. this has been very frustrating as we have about a million meals in these containers along with building material and tools, tents, blankets and much more... we have been having to purchase food now for some time locally which puts a huge burden on our budget as we did not anticipate to having to purchase food when we knew this food in the containers would be there... they also charge us $40. per day per container while they are at the Port... they are only hurting their own people with these stall tactics... we have had staff going to Port au Prince every day to try to speed up the process...containers have been there since May...
THERE WAS TO BE FUNDING AVAILABLE THIS YEAR TO HELP WITH THE PROJECTS FROM THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT BUT THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED... THESE FUNDS WERE TO BE SUPPLIED FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AS A RESULT OF THE EARTHQUAKE... MAYBE TOMORROW... WE CAN NEVER GIVE UP HOPE.....
I will have further updates as soon as they become available.. in the mean time thanks for hanging in there with me and helping any way you can..
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