Groucho Marx Glasses and Bandaids
Among the new and old things that I have learned is that both bandaids and Groucho Marx glasses were crafted with white people in mind. But it sure was hilarious to see our 14 beaders and jewelry makers sporting them for our first annual Christmas party! We had such a great time. In my mind, […]
Empowering Artisans
Saturday was a big day for us. We had a booth at the Quisqueya Christian School Christmas Bazaar. Since most of the jewelry that our artisans make gets flown stateside, our ladies ( and young men too) never get the opportunity first hand to see their jewelry sell. I asked the ladies who might be […]
Thanksgiving and more
Well, we had Thanksgiving two days late, mostly because I forgot about it and didn’t take the turkey out of the freezer in time. (Yes I was able to locate a relatively inexpensive Turkey at Megamart and was so pleased that I bought two!) We didn’t really have any plans for who would be eating […]
Good news all around.
Today I am thankful for much.The day started out with me taking the new pregnant teenager (whose name happens to be Ketsia- very close to my Keziah!) down to Heartline to give the Fetal Heart Rate monitor a whirl.When we arrived, they had just had a healthy baby girl born that was only a few […]
Belly Blows and Belly Aches
Today was one of those long and dramatic Haiti days. Our ladies were beading today and Beatrice informed me that after her husband beat her daughter unconscious last week and had tried to stab her this week, that she was finally leaving him. Whew… if that wasn’t heavy enough, she informed me that there was […]
Sonia’s story
The ladies have been working hard getting ready for Christmas. We have several jewelry parties going on and a local Christmas bazaar where we will sell and spread the word locally here in Haiti. Today Sonia came over a little earlier than the rest of the ladies to work on her paper beads. It was […]
Generosity crisis.. and how to really help!
Today I opened my email and almost fell over. We had a cheerful thank you note from the mail service provider that we use telling us that we had been charged $456 for shipping service for the month. This fee comes after the almost $200 we paid in customs fees on top of that. I […]
Johnny and Lovely’s mother
There was a knock at the gate this afternoon. Two smiling little faces and an empty bottle of Clorox greeted me behind the barrier. Bam Ti Dlo? Give me a little water?.. they asked. These two beautiful children are familiar faces as their mother has been over to the house before asking me if I […]
Another day
Today was just strange and very long.Here are some things that happened. 1. We decided to fill the kiddy pool on the roof and were not willing to bucket the water up one bucket at a time as that would clearly take half of the morning, so Richard actually got into the water tank on […]
Top 10 ways you know you are a white missionary in Haiti.
The top ten ways you know you are a white missionary in Haiti 10. You exchange currency with Syrians in the back of a mini mart on a regular basis 9. You have spiritual moments that revolve around the electricity coming on. “Thank you Jesus! The lights are on… wait… awe, crap.” 8. You know […]
