Cars and cockroaches. Paper and Hair.
Last night in the middle of the night, Keziah woke up to snuggle but then quickly announced that she needed some water. I told her to help herself, so she quietly tip-toed into the kitchen and returned to non-chalantly let me know that when she had gotten water from the water cooler a giant cockroach […]
Our first house…
The speed of the internet, power outages, etc..etc.. makes it hard enough to keep people informed of our goings on here, and it seems to be nearly impossible to upload a decent picture, so unfortunately you are going to have to close your eyes and imagine this weeks endeavors. Imagine a pile of rubble every […]
Our Un-orphanage.
We are running an un-orphanage. Every time that people come over, they ask us if we have an orphanage. We currently have 10 children living in our house. Our artisan house runs wild with children- no less than 15 at a time. We have an unorphanage.I want to call it an unorphanage because for some […]
Updates and prayers needed.
I can’t seem to spit out what I want to say.. so I am going to do bullets instead1. We have a huge house for our artisans/ guests now! So incredible and so much work right now. Teams start to come in May. Can’t wait for some help and some refreshing faces!2. The container arrived. […]
Ti Mama
The ladies in our program call her Tata (short for Tatiana) but I call her Ti Mama. It means little mama. She is seventeen years old, mostly deaf, an orphan, and has just had her first baby, a baby boy. I first met Ti Mama when she was 7 months pregnant, in January. She came […]
Together at last
After just over two months of separation post-earthquake, the Clay family was reunited in Port Au Prince on the morning of the 24th of March. What a day.. After 26 hours of travel with four small children in tow, sleeping in the Ft Lauderdale airport ( or rather not sleeping because the babies refused to […]
Art for Apparent
J. Ackman has made 100 prints of this beautiful piece of art to sell to benefit the work of the Apparent Project. Help us build new homes for our homeless Haitian friends and get a sweet piece of art for your home at the same time! The Blog about the work can be seen here: […]
Linking up: 1
The Apparent Project has received a little more press than usual lately. Here are some of the news articles (and a t.v. spot) about us: (am I missing anything?) http://www.kirotv.com/video/22282205/index.html http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/01/13/news/mhs_grad_wife_ok_after_tremor_309.txt http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/01/20/news/nb_students_start_drive_helping_haiti_at_school_476.txt http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/01/23/opinion/editorial/doc4b5a3164493d8473413953.txt http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/01/27/news/occi_to_send_bake_sale_proceeds_593.txt http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/02/03/news/volunteers_wrestle_with_dilemm_6e5.txt http://www.egcitizen.com/articles/2010/02/04/lifestyle/doc4b69bd6e47f94497227600.txt Supportive Blogs over the last year: If we missed your blog post, let us know! http://livesayhaiti.blogspot.com/2010/02/unrelated-pieces-and-parts.html http://boquillas.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/getting-under-my-skin/ http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2010/02/apparent-project-arts-ministry.html#comment-form http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Kathyleen/744179/ […]
The Show Off Chronicles, Part 2: The Formula for Helping Haiti
Apparent Project Photo Journal 1: A month After the Earthquake from Corrigan Clay on Vimeo. These photos were taken by myself (Corrigan Clay), my wife Shelley, and some of our friends and the street kids and orphans in our program in the first month after Haiti’s big quake on Jan. 12. There is beauty coming […]
“Pa gen rod”
Ok, don’t get me wrong… earthquakes are terrible and the toll of this earthquake makes me cry if I think about it with much focus and reflection at all. If I look down my broken street and remember that, once upon a time, I used to live in a land far away where not only […]
