This has been the first change to get to catch up... seems to be never ending challenges but with every challenge there is always a solution..... when checking into Air Canada in Montreal on Tuesday morning it turned out one of my suitcases was over by 3 lbs. and the other one was right at the max... the lady wanted to charge me $100. for being overweight by these 3 lbs. .. maybe not such a big deal but $100. would feed many children a hot meal here in Haiti... anyway I tried to explain to her the mission we have here in Haiti and if they would waive the charge.. I could not get her to change her mind so I asked for the supervisor... after a short conversation with him he saw it my way and waved the charges.. one small victory.....
The teams arrived all the same day on Tuesday, with Miles and Rosemary on the same flight I was on and the medical team from Lethbridge about 1 hr. later.. the Dr. was not able to come because of a death in the family but he is arriving today...
Chad & Tim's team arrived last night from Urban Refuge and Evergreen.. they all pitched there tents on the roof of our school in Chabin.. I will have more updates and pictures in the days to come...
By the time we arrived in Jacmel on Tuesday night it was after midnight and then up at 3:30 AM to go back to PAP to work on the release of the containers.. it proved to be successful as two of the containers arrived last night at Chabin... the Winkler container and the Medicine Hat containers are on our property in Chabin....the third will be release Monday... we have found that there were some items missing from the containers at the Port in PAP... I guess it is the price a person has to pay for helping in Haiti but it just is not right... besides that they charges us over $20,000. for the 3 containers of which most of it was food for the children...this will be our last containers.. next we will ship over a school bus with with supplies and barge it over from Miami... now the challenge to unload these containers off the trailer.. no equipment like we are use to back home....the trailers don't have rollers or chains...
Also last night three of our staff had to go into Jacmel to get gasoline for the generator for the team staying at Chabin.. Nel, and two of our drivers.. the guy driving my truck is a good driver and operates on of our water trucks..on their way back to Chabin at around midnight they come to a very sharp corner on the road and met a semi that was a runaway.. they moved over as far as possible up against the guard rail but the semi still clipped the front end of our truck.. it was a matter of inches and they would have all been killed...by the time we finished up with the police reports it was around 3AM this morning.. the driver of the semi spent the night in jail... we are so thankful they are safe.. the truck can be repaired...
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