Haiti Foundation Against Poverty

TRYING to get kelencia’s visa worked out but she is being put on the back burner because only critical EQ cases are leaving the country.  I received an email telling us the protocol for medical evacuations, but she just needs a visa.  The evacuations are taken to the USS Comfort and then if they can’t help them there, they fly then to any hospital of their choosing in the states.  She isn’t in CRITICAL condition so I don’t think there’s much we will accomplish right now.  On the other hand, she is doing great!  She is growing up!  She is standing all on her own…just WAITING for that first step!

We closed down clinic yesterday and the doctors all went over to the airport hospital to assist with trauma patients.  We saw about 500 people at our clinic in 2 days!  The doctors are sleeping at the hospital now and they are working day and night shifts!  I saw so many sad, bleeding children as I was dropping the doctors off.  One little girl lost all the hair on one side of her head and her ear and her face was all bloody.  Others were screaming in pain.

Today we are doing a huge food distribution in Les Bours!  We are feeding 60 families with twice the amount of food we normally hand out on a distribution.  Yesterday we bagged food for HOURS.  We still have half of it left to bag!  Tomorrow we will distribute food in LaPlaine to all of the families of sponsored children.  Everyone is receiving rice, corn, and oil.

We still have little 5 lb. Jivenson.  He was brought in by his mother in Les Bours.  He is 3 months old!  And SO tiny!  He has a mohawk…but he only has hair down the back of his head.  He is so precious.  We are trying to regulate his feeding and hydrate him.  We will meet with his mom later today.  Be praying for this little guy!

We heard that Lucien made it to the ship, but we haven’t heard any results yet!  I’m hoping to hear something about him today.

I have been EXHAUSTED.  We are going to bet about 1-:30 every night and waking up at about 5:00am. ….and all through the night the dogs are barking and we lie awake in fear of another shake.  I have never looked or felt so tired in my life!  I am excited to come home on Wednesday and take a warm shower and hopefully sleep the night through!  …but I also don’t want to leave!  I am getting everyone set on food these next two days so I can come home for a week!  Lord willing, when I return we will have a house to move into!

Yesterday I saw the US soldiers handing out food near Cite Soleil and when I went to deliver food to Carole and the tent community she is living in, there were several soldiers walking down the street scouting out the area.  More tents are being passed out, and more water trucks are driving around the city….although none of them are playing the Titanic theme song yet.

I can’t believe all that has changed in less than 3 weeks.  It truly breaks my heart.  I miss Delmas.  It is so sickening to walk down the guest house road. Silence and the stench of rotting bodies fills the air.  Our neighbors, our grocery store, our restaurant, our digicel card sellers, our coke vendors…..gone.  The movie theater, the bank, the barber….gone.  Yesterday out neighbors were smashing apart the cement roof of their house trying to find the bodies of their family members.  I can’t even imagine the horrifying condition they will find their bodies in.

While the news may stop covering this disaster in Haiti, it certainly won’t go away.  I wish I could wake up form this awful nightmare.  I just keep praying for the Lord to shine in this darkness….

Can’t wait to see you in a few days!

Mal