Feeding Hundreds and Hundreds...

February 5, 2010

Manje kwit pa gen mèt.

Cooked food has no owner.

Which means, once cooked, food belongs to everyone.

 

We are currently feeding hundreds and hundreds of people at the Love A Child Earthquake Relief Center.  This includes our orphans, all the injured Haitian people who are being treated and recovering here, doctors, nurses, and many other volunteers.  

 

When we feed our staff and children, it is a big job, but now, it is overwhelming.  Since the beginning of the Love A Child Earthquake Relief Center, we've been feeding everyone involved three meals a day.

 

It is hot, hard work!  This is how many Haitians prepare their meals every day, but on a huge scale...

 

Without propane, our cooks are using charcoal on the ground under huge pots to prepare the food.  You can see how so many little children get burned on the open coals...

 

Some of our cooks and older orphans are helping to prepare the food right here in front of the orphanage, load it on a pick up truck, take it to the Jesus Healing Center, put the food on plates, and finally, distribute it to the patients.

 

The pots are so large and heavy, it takes two people to lift one onto the bed of our pickup truck.

From the orphanage the food is driven to the Jesus Healing Center.

There we unload the large pots of food into the kitchen.  Notice Georges in the upper right corner of the picture, he is one of our orphans and he is carrying a handful of plastic forks.  In the kitchen of the Jesus Healing Center, the cooks put the food on plates to be taken to our patients.

Then, the cooks set the meals out on a table or shelf until a server takes a tray to the patients.

Now, LAC workers and orphans are ready to serve the food to our patients...

(Dana, pink shirt and Florence, far right, are two of our orphans)

 

Now, time to pass out the food to all the injured victims from the earthquake...

The rice and beans are full of vitamins and minerals...just what these poor injured people need.  Thanks to Feed My Starving Children, this food is made especially for malnourished people.  FMSC donates this wonderful food to Love A Child, but we pay for the transportation from Minnesota to Haiti.  Including customs fees, this comes to $10,000 per container!

We are so thankful for all who make feeding the children, women and men of Haiti possible.  Special thanks to all of our Love A Child partners, Joyce Meyer Ministries - Hand of Hope and Pastor Jentezen Franklin - Kingdom Connection for the monthly support to feed starving children each month.  This year, together, we are providing over 1,000,000 meals every month.  

 

Here we are with the Dana, one of our older orphans, and one of the LAC cooks passing out food to all the patients in the Love A Child Earthquake Relief Center.

Florence and Dana, two of our orphans, help serve food to the injured.

 

A kind word and a plate of nourishing food go a long way toward the recovery of the earthquake victims...

 

Young and old alike are grateful for their meal...

The mobile kitchen which has already been donated to Love A Child by the Richard W. Hotes Foundation is sitting in Miami, ready to come to Haiti.  So far, we do not have transportation to get the kitchen here.  It will help us so much and we need it so badly.  Please pray that the kitchen will soon arrive in Haiti.  We are trusting the Lord to find a way.

 

When we are together, we can do so much more.

Today, please pray about how you can help us here in Haiti to care for all the earthquake victims on the LAC property.  We are feeding the people three meals a day.  We need you to stand with us as we continue to meet the needs of the earthquake victims.  If you would like to help sponsor food for the earthquake victims, please click on the red button below and donate now.