{"id":701,"date":"2011-06-06T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T21:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=701"},"modified":"2012-06-24T00:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T05:06:32","slug":"a-new-building-for-yvrose-and-cholera-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"A New Building for Yvrose and Cholera Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"

We made it!\u00a0 Victory Compassion came out on Thursday and put up the third building.<\/p>\n

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Praying over Yvrose’ new building.<\/p><\/div>\n

It is made a little different than the first two with louvered metal windows instead of small glass ones and taller side walls to begin with.\u00a0 The Victory people all gathered around the house when it was up and prayed to dedicate it and the property to the Lord.<\/p>\n

It will be awhile before Yvrose\u2019 can use it, however.\u00a0 Rod brought the concrete and\u00a0supplies on his truck that we needed to do the foundation but we need more supplies now to put the finish on the floor which is needed before moving in and we have no way of getting them.\u00a0 The truck situation, which we are constantly making calls and occasional trips to PAP about, continues to be stalled.<\/p>\n

The morning after the house dedication, Yvrose called to tell us a little girl who lived next door to her had suddenly died.\u00a0 She had a history of epilepsy.\u00a0 She was from Pays-Pourri and lived with her aunt here in Fonds.\u00a0 Bill and I went up to see the family.\u00a0 It was the first time I had been around a death so immediately after it had happened.<\/p>\n

The aunt was weeping and screaming and thrashing about.\u00a0 Bill walked through the crowd into the little room and took the aunt in his arms and just held her for a while as she carried on.\u00a0 She calmed down a little but with new people arriving, the wailing would started in afresh.\u00a0\u00a0 It seems to be part of the culture as more people came and started screaming and wailing.<\/p>\n

The child\u2019s body was in another room.\u00a0 I went in past the people there, knelt down on the floor beside her, and sang\u00a0Safe in the Arms of Jesus\u00a0over her just I did over my son Caleb\u2019s body 10 years ago.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what people thought about us being there, but as I have watched Bill over the last two weeks interact with the poorer people here, I\u2019m a little in awe of his gentleness and loving attitude with them and how he blesses the people.<\/p>\n

The little girl was from Pays-Pourri and the body needed to be taken back there.\u00a0 Since we didn\u2019t have the truck, we called HCM and they graciously sent their ambulance over to take her to the trail head.\u00a0 The little girl went to Yvrose\u2019 school and had been friends with Yvrose\u2019 little girls so this was a good time for Yvrose to talk with them about heaven and the hope we have in the Lord for our eternal future.\u00a0 What a joy that we have such a home waiting for us!<\/p>\n

On Sunday after worship with Yvrose\u2019 family, we went to the clinic next door to visit Antonine, the sweet older woman we had helped some months ago with a loan to start her little clothing business.\u00a0 She was sick but not with cholera even though they had put her in the cholera ward.\u00a0 She had been there for 24 hours.\u00a0 The clinic does not feed the patients.\u00a0 Their families must bring food for them.\u00a0 No one had brought Antonine food so I went back to the house to get some for her.\u00a0 She was getting better and was released later that day.<\/p>\n

Cholera is picking up again in the mountains and by the time the people come down trying to get to a clinic, wading through the rivers contaminating them on the way, they are nearly dead if they don\u2019t die on the way.\u00a0 It makes no sense!!!\u00a0 There needs to be a way to treat them up there!<\/p>\n

Monday, the nurses we had found and had trained at the cholera clinic next door came out from PAP.\u00a0 We spent the day trying to contact World Vision to try to get some supplies for the mountains.\u00a0 We finally just called Mike at IFM next door.\u00a0 He told us to bring our list of needs over and he would see what he could do to help.<\/p>\n

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Scrubbing down the donated cholera tent<\/p><\/div>\n

IFM not only donated medicines but also a large UNICEF tent they were no longer using since World Vision had put up a huge tent for their cholera treatment center.\u00a0 We spent Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning scrubbing all the tent pieces with Clorox water.\u00a0 Love A Child donated Clorox and IV solution.\u00a0 We borrowed Victory\u2019s truck and drove to PAP to Grassroots United who donated an entire truckload of things.\u00a0 We are so very grateful!<\/p>\n

Wednesday morning, Bill, Yvrose, Manolo, NoNo, the two Haitian nurses, and three<\/p>\n

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Praying before leaving for the trailhead with cholera supplies<\/p><\/div>\n

Haitian helpers drove with the truck to the trailhead to meet the pack mules.\u00a0 They were headed to Pinser, a site between Pays-Pourri and Mawozo (pronounced Mowser).\u00a0 It is a central location and if we can get it up and running, the people from both regions can come without having to go through rivers.<\/p>\n

It was a four hour hike though it seemed hours longer.\u00a0 Bill called late in the afternoon.\u00a0 They had just gotten there and were exhausted.\u00a0 He said the two Haitian nurses were about to fall to pieces.\u00a0 I\u2019m wondering if they will even stay when Bill comes back.\u00a0 The biggest problem?\u00a0 Finding a level enough place to pitch the large tent!<\/p>\n

It started raining last night and continues today.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t heard from Bill this morning.\u00a0 Please keep them all in your prayers as they hope to find a place for the clinic, set up the tent and supplies, and then return safely, not an easy task on steep mountain sides in the rain.<\/p>\n

We had hoped the Haitian nurses would find a couple of young mountain women to come down and train at the cholera clinic next door while they were there as we knew the nurses from PAP wouldn\u2019t want to stay in the mountains in the primitive conditions there for long.\u00a0 But women from there are used to the conditions and if trained in cholera treatment, could save many lives.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your patience in reading.\u00a0 I know this has gotten long.\u00a0 It is so hard to get to the internet here so I\u2019m sending two updates today.\u00a0 Thank you for your prayers.\u00a0 Though Haiti can be a very frustrating place to try to work, we continue to seek to be a light in a very dark place, sharing God\u2019s love as we are able.\u00a0 May God bless you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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