Two Babies and a Shower House

9th Haiti Trip – Vol. III

After returning from the mountains, the project for the next few days till the Lindsey’s

Working on the drain pipes for the shower house

left was to get a shower/bathroom “addition” started for Yvrose.  The entire family is still going to the bathroom in the “port-a-potty” sitting over a hole in the ground or the bushes.

The guys worked hard moving dirt, digging the trench for the electric and water lines from the well, etc.  They got the stem wall up and the drainage pipes set in preparation for pouring the floor before they left.

Twin babies, Yvella and Gabriella

Pierre Richard, Yvrose’ husband, recently brought home two six-month-old twins, one with a (prayerfully temporary) dysfunctional lethargy.  They took them in when their 19-year-old mother abandoned them because she was overwhelmed. Gabriella will just lay in her pack ‘n play for a long time not moving.  She holds her head at a funny angle and if you pick her up and straighten her neck a little, she will let out this little quiet moaning cry as if you are hurting her.  In just the few days they have been with Yvrose’ family, the babies are starting to move more.  Please pray for them that their arrested development will improve.

After the Lindsey group left on Sunday, Victory Compassion came on Monday and brought some people to help. They got the floor poured in the shower house and started on the walls.  Bill and I flew back to the states on Tuesday, completing another trip to Haiti. We have since heard that Victory got the roof on the shower house!

Bill plans to return to Haiti around Oct. 1st to “beat on some doors” in PAP to try to get our truck back before some friends from CA arrive to serve on the 9th.  We are also trying to raise money to buy the fixtures for the shower house at Yvrose’.  Plumbing parts are very expensive in Haiti as everything has to be imported and tariffs on incoming goods are high.

School starts October 1st in Haiti.  We plan to continue to support the school in the mountains of Pays-Pourri that enrolls over 180 children.  Last year we spent $1000 on books for the school and it is time to purchase them again.  Another school in the mountains at Chapelle was going to have to close.  Some friends have pledged $100 a month to pay two teachers and some funds for books.  But for the 140 children there, we really hope to hire at least one more teacher plus we need funds for more books and incidentals. In both schools, we would like to be able to feed the students lunch if the Lord provides the funds.

Thank you all for being a part of JUST MERCY.

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Janet, wife, mother and grandmother has made many trips to Haiti since the earthquake of 2010. She works to support Just Mercy and her husband Bill and does the many things such as research, communication, ‘technical support”, etc, at home in Missouri that are often quite difficult to do in Haiti. All these activities and her children and grandchildren keep her busy.