This trip to visit the school JUST MERCY supports in the mountains of Pays Pourri was planned before Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti. As things in the east of Haiti were fairly close to “normal” after the hurricane, we decided to go ahead and make the trip. I flew into Haiti …
Saturday morning, Oct. 29, found us crossing 11 miles of undulating Caribbean turquoise going from Ile a Vache bound for the mainland coastal village of Baie du Mesle. We were scheduled to meet with a truck loaded with 4-5 tons of relief food; rice, beans, oil, corn, sugar, the most basic staples. …
The weekend of October 15 saw five more men arrive in Haiti to help JUST MERCY. They were such a help!!! I’ll let them tell the story of the next week in their own words and the words of Tim’s wife who posted her information on Facebook. We are so grateful …
When Category 4 Hurricane Matthew roared through Haiti on October 3, Bill was home on a short visit. We immediately went into emergency mode, working the phones, making contacts, lining up real possibilities to get food to the people as quickly as possible, and sending out a plea for funds to …
Berill, a man who had just started working with us that morning was doing a really good job but about noon he disappeared and I was wondering where he went. A little while later he came back and I could see he was about to cry. “What’s going on?” I …
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