tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45180007329778027732024-03-05T10:52:59.801-08:00Espwa Means HOPEStay informed, stay involved: here's one way of keeping up with what's happening in southern Haiti. Please consider supporting our mission to save orphans and vulnerable children from desperate poverty; contributions can be sent to our partners at Free the Kids - www.freethekids.org. Thank you for your help.Kelseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398778018476286144noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-18187941074560853492014-06-01T10:40:00.002-07:002014-06-01T10:40:57.953-07:00Leafy Greens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Horticulturalist Cameron in his natural habitat: our densely-packed Moringa grove. The Moringa is a versatile tree that thrives in tropical areas; its leaves are packed with vitamins and used for medicine across several cultures (including Haitian herbal culture). Every part of the tree is useful in some way, and Cameron's been helping us grow more and more to have at our disposal.</div>
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Mme. Denault, the head cook, shreds harvested Moringa leaves to mix in the Saturday stew. It's a small addition that makes a world of difference, giving a great boost to the meal's nutritional content. It's still a young project and a new concept, but here's to looking forward where it can take us. Here's to good health and leafy greens.</div>
<br />Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-19005109572852225412014-05-17T17:05:00.003-07:002014-05-17T17:05:51.797-07:00Happy Teachers' Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: start;">Here in Haiti, we celebrate Teachers' Day on May 16. Undaunted by heavy rains that morning, Espwa school teachers and children came together yesterday for a special assembly to honor our educators and their special contribution to the lives of our children.</span></div>
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It was a day of acknowledgment, speeches, and performance. Here the littlest students share some encouraging words for their teachers - like they say, 'from the mouths of babes':<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisBE5GhClOTHm9QWmfCgNDXhKTol5CAsKUgrmiaoOujW5HHG5XYw6jGf3OId33iuHGese03e1apR2kF-2TTDEQ9pHZREQzEmRjFeoxd4ONwKTTvS3XB8yPI5d-n72YJfItvbwFshIGlrHB/s1600/IMG_2226.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisBE5GhClOTHm9QWmfCgNDXhKTol5CAsKUgrmiaoOujW5HHG5XYw6jGf3OId33iuHGese03e1apR2kF-2TTDEQ9pHZREQzEmRjFeoxd4ONwKTTvS3XB8yPI5d-n72YJfItvbwFshIGlrHB/s1600/IMG_2226.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></a></div>
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Remember these guys? The Espwa nan Nwel 2013 winners performed a groovy tune:</div>
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And here the principals of the secondary school and kindergarten, left to right, present the teachers with honorary certificates:</div>
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Educators, thank you for all you do for the children!</div>
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Today we added thirty new layer chickens to the chicken coop; this expansion of the egg project will help us provide more supplemental nutrition and protein in the children's meals and strengthen our self-sustaining approach to agriculture. It's been made possible by generous donors, the leadership of Cameron from CO, and of course the young men who care for the chickens and operate the egg project day-to-day. Great work!</div>
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<br />Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-38623016986708181312014-04-06T17:14:00.001-07:002014-04-06T17:14:28.965-07:00Global Health<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week we were visited by a wonderful group of nursing students and faculty from CO, specializing in global community health. Although they were only here for a few days, they did a lot for the kids - checking all the residents of our younger houses for skin conditions, infections, fungi, and mites. They're nasty-sounding things that get passed around quite a bit in a big population of rough-and-tumble little kids living close together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They also shared some very sweet moments with the children, like "Doctor" Tanise here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is great new because with better knowledge of the problem, we can formulate a response to make those blisters and rashes a thing of the past. </span></div>
Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-82658871729112141482014-03-30T10:48:00.000-07:002014-03-30T10:48:02.845-07:00Open Wide<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we hosted a group of old friends from a Presbyterian church in NJ. Together with fellow visitor Allain from CA, they set up a dental suite in the Klinik Espwa. Here's Carelene getting a good cleaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here Angeline cleaning out her mouth after everything's done. This was a great opportunity for our kids to receive high-quality healthcare in an important area of their lives.<br /><br />But that's not all - our visitors were multi-talented bunch and shared a great deal of other professional skills: primary healthcare and cardiological consultations, physical and energy therapy, construction and mechanical assistance, and more! A real gift.</span></div>
<br />Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-1792722891462677172014-03-25T05:07:00.002-07:002014-03-25T05:07:39.585-07:00Pass the Popcorn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can't tell in the dark, but this is a cloth screen in the Boy's Village - we've been bringing back a very nice tradition, weekend movie nights. It's a great way to build community and bring some excitement to the typical (quiet) Friday night; the students especially enjoyed it as they just finished taking midterms this past week.<br /><br />Can anyone ID the movie? 50 points if you can get it!</span></div>
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<br />Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-12892072524760632002014-03-17T18:27:00.001-07:002014-03-17T18:27:16.934-07:00Espwa Jeopardy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week the school system held another round of the "Genius Debate," an academic competition open to all outstanding students. Participants flex their brains by memorizing material from their classes and going head-to-head with a barrage of trivia questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a great opportunity for encouragement and practice for our students who academically excel, and it makes for great entertainment:</span></div>
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Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-77271520897298025822014-03-13T18:38:00.003-07:002014-03-20T06:55:39.613-07:00Students' Visit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week a group of college students from OH are with us on a mission trip. It's a wonderful opportunity for our children, especially our older ones, to share and receive knowledge, perspectives, and questions with others who are so close to their own age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember PPED, from our last blog post? Well this group of exceptional young men is planning to start a small boutique at Espwa in order to support their activities with vulnerable children and establish an enterprise model for future graduates. Here are Makentoche,Lifaite, and Jean Ourdy meeting with the visiting students for advice on forming a solid marketing plan and a strong business proposal to present to potential investors. Two of our visitors are economics majors, and the others have good sense for the field - needless to say, good first steps were made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Engineer Jay and deputized assistant Lisa - both faculty advisors for the trip - getting down to brass tacks by fixing some of our dysfunctional machines; pumps, sanders, V-belts... it's such a godsend to have that know-how here, even if it is for just a week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An after-school English club with a few young men from the Secondary School. A relaxed setting for some very deep conversation.</span>Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-80200076441134014002014-02-25T07:24:00.002-08:002014-02-25T07:24:16.671-08:00Thinking on Your Feet<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A small example of adapting to challenges here that I wanted to share with you-<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few days ago, the older boys working in the egg project noticed that several of the chickens were sick. After contacting a local veterinarian, they were told to separate the sick chickens and change the sawdust bedding. Here they are working on it:<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without other coops or pens available, they improvised and overcame - Sammy here is constructing an enclosed cage within the coop out of materials they had on hand.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZRilVsVPRV_2Hb2gRLrFcrZZUYQs4DxMPkKm1dVEyv4CTwvGN-1vosw3HpQLFY7ZOAqjViGrP0XcGhwrnMNGbVYH5jVOIWRJ3VP73YAREiAgly1CrxQbqSi7VeGnMzhyPUGToE0O8cdJ/s1600/IMG_1628.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZRilVsVPRV_2Hb2gRLrFcrZZUYQs4DxMPkKm1dVEyv4CTwvGN-1vosw3HpQLFY7ZOAqjViGrP0XcGhwrnMNGbVYH5jVOIWRJ3VP73YAREiAgly1CrxQbqSi7VeGnMzhyPUGToE0O8cdJ/s1600/IMG_1628.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The coop has been swept, and the boys started administering antibiotics recommended by the vet. We're hoping that'll take care of it, but if not it's good knowing these guys have the initiative to identify the problem and the drive to resolve it.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRT_6286ipRkFgb0T7u7bULIu7rVtfHHwvd-F6acljATxMccZ5yCv_yXjPIfgYZd8aTDPK4WhyhYw9LiTlQZFcdmf5Mff292NfZHlNgklTaSP-9kflU5B604Dp-zlTEJeWwFV7SE3AE_h/s1600/Jackson+Chickens.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRT_6286ipRkFgb0T7u7bULIu7rVtfHHwvd-F6acljATxMccZ5yCv_yXjPIfgYZd8aTDPK4WhyhYw9LiTlQZFcdmf5Mff292NfZHlNgklTaSP-9kflU5B604Dp-zlTEJeWwFV7SE3AE_h/s1600/Jackson+Chickens.png" height="400" width="212" /></a></div>
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Instead of the usual Haitian spaghetti or rice dish, this morning the kids got a nutritious treat - boiled eggs. These are Espwa-grown eggs from our own chicken coop, and are possible because of the efforts of the team of students who tend the chickens and the leadership of our friend Cameron in CO. </div>
<br />Right now the chicken project is still in its beginnings, a small coop of about twenty layers - so we're able to do this once a month. In the future we hope to expand, adding chickens to the coop and protein to the children's diet.Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-41548391070121481442014-02-14T16:12:00.001-08:002014-02-15T06:24:21.281-08:00Dedication Ceremony<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple shots from the dedication and the official opening of the water purification building:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a tremendous blessing, and one that we're very excited about moving forward with. Thank you, friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday an important part of the girls' dome village was installed. Take a look:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These two light posts are solar-powered, which means no electricity costs (or periodic power outages), and the batteries are built to last through the night. It'll be a welcome change for the girls to see where they're going after dark!</span></div>
Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-34867388773627292582014-02-11T07:53:00.001-08:002014-02-11T07:53:40.487-08:00Living Water<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friends at the US-based Presbyterian water ministry are giving us a great gift, installing a water purification system adjacent to the clinic. This will allow us to easily provide clean, drinkable water for the whole Espwa campus, and will serve as an enterprise opportunity for some of our young men vending water to the local community.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guys in our carpentry shop just finished construction of a hefty order of cabinets (14 large, 9 small, I think) for our new girls' houses. Very well-made, and all this despite the major table saw being out of commission with a worn-out belt.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to a large donation of shoes by our recent visitors, we were able to hold a distribution of shoes for all our children who needed a new pair.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a blessing! Thanks to all who made this possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Jean Yvon Derase, our new head of security here at Espwa. He will be taking over for Francois, who had to leave us for health reasons. Jean Yvon brings with him a lot of experience and a commitment to keep our kids safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're feeling very positive about it, and on that note, please enjoy this staged photo that tries to emulate a casual conversation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week a group of medical students from Port-au-Prince visited us, led by Dr. Joey Lamarre - a former Espwa kid and now a first-year resident physician at the general hospital in Les Cayes.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The students have been doing this for a few years now, spending a week with the children here as an annual service project. They teach the basics of public health, germs and parasites, self-care, hygiene, and other topics. At the end of the trip they met with Espwa staff to present their observations and suggestions.<br /><br />It's great for the kids, it's a good experience for the med students, and it's encouraging for us to see Dr. Joey and how the seeds of his time at Espwa have blossomed into such a wonderful collaboration on this scale.<br /><br />Here are some pictures of the young doctors at work: (they're really good with the kids!)<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many visitors, both past and upcoming, have been kind enough to arrange goodie bags for the kids, so they can have a kind of Christmas present this year. Those of you who have been to the Quad recently know there's a room in the back with hundreds of painted bags waiting for Dec. 25. We're very appreciative to have received such a gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it doesn't end there. Espwa gives forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are bags of hygiene supplies several students and staff put together today. They're Christmas gifts for the inmates at Les Cayes prison, who live daily in deplorable conditions, even by Haitian standards - many of whom have been waiting for months or years to go to trial.<br /><br />The funding for these packages was provided by our friends at Cross International, for prison ministry. It's an important part of empowerment for our community, to move beyond being a recipient of charity and to be able to improve the lives of others as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday at the airport we picked up a wonderful gift from our friend Tom in MN - a portable sound system! If you've been here for a Spektak show or seen our current speaker in the background of a blog post, you'll know how clunky and distorted it gets. This is a great improvement, and one which everyone here will appreciate and get a lot of use out of - from assemblies to performances. Thanks, Tom!<br /><br />(That's Dimy [pronounced like Jimmy] and Bonhomme, by the way - after helping set up the system for a test run, they wanted to give the microphones a quick test; they work like a charm)</span></div>
Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-68209155214651890752013-12-06T12:26:00.002-08:002013-12-06T12:26:31.194-08:00From the Ground Up<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are tough times, but thanks to the generosity of some friends and project funders, we've been able to commence construction on a water purification hut. It's good that the builders and tradesmen can have work these days, and they've been doing a bang-up job getting this off the ground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank God for the gift of moving forward.</span></div>
Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-76588016905370242992013-12-02T19:04:00.002-08:002013-12-02T19:04:21.397-08:00Have you Heard?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow is GIVING TUESDAY, a reminder to come full circle and give back to the world after our consumption-crazed days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.<br /><br />Please remember us in your Giving Tuesday plans; for those of you social media literati, we'd love it if you tweet or Facebook about us - hashtags and at-signs may be all Greek to me, but they're a surefire way to raise awareness.<br /><br />A big Merci from all of us at Espwa.</span><br /><br />
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Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-67696222322672586412013-12-01T11:24:00.002-08:002013-12-01T11:24:34.691-08:00First Egg Stock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's some guys from the egg coop troupe - Tony, Dieufaite, and Klervens - washing the eggs from our coop in treated water. This morning they took 530 of our first stock to the children's kitchen, where they were prepared as a breakfast treat for the residents and staff.<br /><br />Congrats, guys! May this be the first of many.</span></div>
Griffin Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436993997653085163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518000732977802773.post-14406843846829730652013-11-23T12:39:00.001-08:002013-11-23T14:13:10.447-08:00Dome Homes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A group photo with the girls by their soon-to-be new homes. Under the direction of Deacon Peter, a long-time and dedicated friend of Espwa, construction on "phase 1" of the girls' dome village finished on schedule about a week ago.<br /><br />All the domes that will house the girls, babies, and house monitors have been completed, as well as the main sanitation dome for the complex. The foundation for a recreation dome is laid and a concrete perimeter wall is planned for the future, but now the girls can move into their new dwellings - although not quite yet, as we still need to furnish the domes.<br /><br />This is a big step forward for the girls and they're all very excited; they've been looking forward to this for a long while. They'll need a little more patience yet, but I hope you're as happy as we are about this development.</span></div>
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