Early morning update
I really hope today is the last day I am shaken out of bed in the wee hours of the morning by yet another tremor. It wasn’t a huge one, but enough to wake me up and send me running for the door. Of course there is no way to relax enough afterwards to fall back asleep so I was up as of 4 something this morning. But here I am FINALLY getting around to writing an update, so I guess it’s not all in vain. I really am sorry I’m not consistent. I know I’ve waited too long between updates when I start getting worried emails wondering if everything is ok.
We’re trying our best to settle into the new normal, but the new normal is kind of chaotic. The Hope House kids are out of the tents, praise the Lord, but they’re not all in one building, they’re kind of scattered across the property, which makes things a little crazy.
Schools have not reopened across the whole country. The government originally said the schools still standing would re-open end of March beginning of April but have since taken that back because they need to check all the schools to give approval to open, a very good thing! I’ve seen two story buildings with HUGE cracks being repaired by just filling the holes in with cement and painting it over. I’m not a structural engineer but that just doesn’t seem safe.
All the hospitals I’ve seen are tent cities and still full of patients, the majority of which are amputees.
Our clinic is still running an operating room out of the lab, and our high school is still being used as a post-op care ward. There are still people coming in who have been waiting since the day of the earthquake for surgery!
Our warehouse is the center of the action as transport trucks are bringing in containers of food and supplies almost every day. The line up of trucks loading up food for distribution is almost never ending as well. Mission of Hope has provided over 3 million meals since the earthquake. It’s amazing to see all that has been done.
My next big project is about to begin. I have 17 women coming in for job interviews this morning. Sparrows Home is partnering with Mission of Hope to bring in injured children, mainly amputees, who have been orphaned by the earthquake. We will be taking them in, providing medical care and loving on them while Sparrows Home works on getting them medical visas in the United States. They have loving families ready and waiting to take in these children.
We are ready to take in 24 children immediately, but will eventually be able to take in over 50 children at a time. I have a feeling I will soon have a new understanding of the word exhausted, but each smiling face will make it all worth while. I can’t believe how blessed I have been to be able to be a part of Haiti’s new beginning as I’m calling it. Out of the ashes comes HOPE, out of the rubble comes a new life, a second chance. Every day since January 12th is a bonus and each one of us who lived needs to make sure we live each day with purpose, and with that I will leave you. It is time to start another day.
Peace, love and another chance at life,
Rachel
We’re trying our best to settle into the new normal, but the new normal is kind of chaotic. The Hope House kids are out of the tents, praise the Lord, but they’re not all in one building, they’re kind of scattered across the property, which makes things a little crazy.
Schools have not reopened across the whole country. The government originally said the schools still standing would re-open end of March beginning of April but have since taken that back because they need to check all the schools to give approval to open, a very good thing! I’ve seen two story buildings with HUGE cracks being repaired by just filling the holes in with cement and painting it over. I’m not a structural engineer but that just doesn’t seem safe.
All the hospitals I’ve seen are tent cities and still full of patients, the majority of which are amputees.
Our clinic is still running an operating room out of the lab, and our high school is still being used as a post-op care ward. There are still people coming in who have been waiting since the day of the earthquake for surgery!
Our warehouse is the center of the action as transport trucks are bringing in containers of food and supplies almost every day. The line up of trucks loading up food for distribution is almost never ending as well. Mission of Hope has provided over 3 million meals since the earthquake. It’s amazing to see all that has been done.
My next big project is about to begin. I have 17 women coming in for job interviews this morning. Sparrows Home is partnering with Mission of Hope to bring in injured children, mainly amputees, who have been orphaned by the earthquake. We will be taking them in, providing medical care and loving on them while Sparrows Home works on getting them medical visas in the United States. They have loving families ready and waiting to take in these children.
We are ready to take in 24 children immediately, but will eventually be able to take in over 50 children at a time. I have a feeling I will soon have a new understanding of the word exhausted, but each smiling face will make it all worth while. I can’t believe how blessed I have been to be able to be a part of Haiti’s new beginning as I’m calling it. Out of the ashes comes HOPE, out of the rubble comes a new life, a second chance. Every day since January 12th is a bonus and each one of us who lived needs to make sure we live each day with purpose, and with that I will leave you. It is time to start another day.
Peace, love and another chance at life,
Rachel
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