Love A Child Orphanage - A Miracle Home for Children...
How It All Began...
About fifteen years ago, we conducted a mobile medical clinic in Bethel, one of the most remote villages of Haiti. The real name of the village, if you were looking at a map, is Petit Desdunes, but the people call it "Babylon," because it is so wild, rough and remote. We nicknamed it Bethel. During the clinic, we were called to the side of a dying woman named Madamn Limose.
She gave her last request to Sherry... "Please take care of my four children after I die." Sherry promised her that she would care for her children. |  |
Finding a place for the children
It was hard to find a rental building for our small orphans. In Bois Monquette, we located a building in need of much repair. We moved in with the four sick and malnourished children.
To make a long story short, the "four children" soon became eight and the eight became sixteen and so on. We knew we were going to need a large piece of land on which to build a new orphanage, but good land is scarce in Haiti and most of the land doesn't have clean water.
Then, a Haitian man who had left Haiti many years ago, came to us in the United States. He had left a lot of land behind in Haiti, when he fled Papa Doc Duvalier, the notorious ex-president of Haiti. This man donated his land in Haiti to Love A Child. The land was inhabited by peasants and Voodoo people. It didn't look like much of anything except a desert full of cactus bushes and was occupied by mean, hateful Voodoo people who didn't want us on the land.
Clearing the Love A Child land for the orphanage
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We began by having an outdoor crusade and won several people to the Lord. Then, we hired 27 workers to "clear the land" and those 27 men are still with us today. Most of these men have given their hearts to the Lord. Some are a little more "challenging," but they too will come to the Lord, in His time!
It took almost three years to build this 21,500 square foot orphanage, which has been voted the Number One Orphanage by the Government of Haiti!
Love A Child Orphanage - Constructed in 2004
We now have older teenagers who will soon be going to college. We would like to ensure their future with a college fund for each one. If you would like to give through stocks, bonds, investments, or any type of planned giving, this would help us secure the future for these orphan children. Please call Shar in our Florida Office at 813-621-7263 or send us an email at info@lachaiti.org.
God Bless You,
Bobby and Sherry Burnette
Click here to see A Day in the Life of our children.