Chad Scott

Chad is the new Vice-President of Free The Kids, the non-profit in the states that works to support our mission down here.  He's getting the lay of the land from horseback.  It's been good getting to know him and letting him into our Espwa world.  Wish him well as he has a huge task ahead of him.

New friends

Here's a group shot of our new friends surrounding Paige.  To the right of Paige is Max who was the trip coordinator and he'll be coming back soon with some college students.  We were sad to see them leave this morning (very early this morning) but sure we'll see them again.  Our prayers went with them for a safe trip home.

Screening

 Sam and Gedna

When our doctors identified five cases of malaria for our children, our friends from North Carolina were quick to respond.  They went out and bought as much screening as possible in town, measured the windows in the kids' homes and started cutting 'em up.  Screens were installed a while back but most needed repairs or replacement.  What a great bunch of people!

Tiburon School

This is our small school in Tiburon.  It is half the size it should be and we really need to build another four classrooms so that we can accommodate more children. We guestimate that it would only cost $30,000 to accomplish this.

We're renting this small house for two classes.  It isn't too far from the school but it's cramped and noisy.

Tiburon

Photo taken yesterday when Berthony, our Director, and Maitre Etienne, our Director of Education, visited our small school there. This photo of the landscape behind our school depresses me.  Why?  See that plume of smoke?  That's charcoal being made from trees that have been cut down.  The hillsides are already starting to show the scarring of the deforestation.  Tiburon used to be all about fishing but several major storms destroyed the fishing fleet and the folks have turned to making charcoal in order to live.  What they need is help to get new boats and nets.  I'm looking for funding to help the fishing cooperative so if you know anyone interested, drop me a line.

Cholera Prevention Program

Terre des Hommes is a Swiss non-profit working in the southern part of Haiti.  They have been our good friends for years.  A team of theirs came by this week and installed these hand-washing stations at several locations on our property.  Pretty neat, eh?  Wonder where they got the buckets with logo and all.

Three boys

These three boys attend our pre-school and were on their way home when they decided to take a break in my yard.  I saw them as I was heading out this afternoon.  After exchanging pleasantries, the boy to the left asked -"You don't happen to have any matchbook cars in your house, do you?"  Told them I'd look around.