Real Life in Haiti
October 1, 2008
"He said it was a worm..."
WARNING: THIS JOURNAL CONTAINS GRAPHIC PHOTOS
| Pictured here is Mr. Bernard from Cabaret, Haiti.
I am going to share his story at the end of today's journal because there are a couple of graphic pictures. |  |
We are now ready for Disaster Relief in Gonaives, Haiti...
In a few days, we will go to Gonaives to give "hope" to many of the hurricane victims. Nelio is locating a very safe area for us to distribute the food. He will go to the village several days ahead of time with a Haitian team to distribute our LAC Food Cards. There will be hundreds and hundreds of families coming for food and standing in long lines. We will keep you posted on this relief effort next week.
In the village of Fond Parisien...
Meanwhile, our missionaries had their hands full today. The submergible pump we installed in Fond Parisien had a major problem..."down under." The pump system weighs thousands of pounds and it all had to be pulled out of the ground. It was a huge job!
Curt Golden came to operate our back-hoe.
You can see one of our missionaries, Bob Stufflebeam, trying to twist and pull the "gear box" portion of the pump out.
 | Bob and Harold (one of our workers) are trying to twist and remove the gear head so they can pull out the rest of the pump, which goes down 100 feet.
If we don't get this fixed, the village people will not have water for their gardens, their animals or their families. |
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It was a long day...
| You can see Bob standing, perched like a little bird, on top of an old well pump.
He was still trying to remove that gear box!!!! |
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As of right now, they still have more of the pump gear and pipes to pull out of the ground and it is very, very heavy. We need to find out if there is anything we need to "replace" before we put all this stuff back together and down into the well. This may take about a week.
At the Love A Child village...
Back at our Jesus Healing Center, the kids were busy picking up trash and broken pieces of tile, but they were happy to work!
WARNING: GRAPHIC PICTURES AHEAD
| | "He said it was a worm..." This is Mr Bernard. He was at our front gate this morning, on crutches. We are so busy that we wanted to send him to another clinic, but after talking to him, we found out something so pathetic. I noticed he had on some of the "sandals" we had given away in the large white sacks during the Cabaret Disaster Relief efforts. |
Mr. Bernard was there when we handed out all the relief supplies...
| Little did we know that he had just lost his 21-year old daughter and his nine month old baby boy.
The floods came and took his little mud hut and his two children. (His wife wasn't there at that time.)
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Nelio is always helping others...
 | He unfolded a little note that Nelio, our Director, had given him.
This note said, "Come to Fond Parisien and we will help you..." |
He was limping and saying that he was hungry and that he had a "worm" in his foot. He said that the worm came from the bad flood waters in Cabaret. There was a huge hole in his foot and it was swollen.
We took him to our old warehouse and cleaned his foot. Carole, our missionary nurse, talked to him in detail. He kept saying a "worm" crawled out of this hole in his foot, and then, it began to swell. Carole cleaned it, gave him antibiotics and pain meds and put a "uni-boot" on it. After looking at this carefully, Carole felt it could be a bite from a brown recluse spider, along with the worm, but we are not sure.
| Anyway, his foot will take a long time to heal. We talked to him about the Lord, gave him a large box of food, cleaned his foot and gave him some money to help him get his life back together.
Please pray for these poor people in Haiti who have lost so much in the hurricanes and floods. If you would like to help with our Disaster Relief efforts with a gift of any amount, please click here to donate now.
God bless you,
Sherry | |
