Today we started off with a hearty breakfast of pancakes, eggs, oatmeal, and an assortment of fresh fruits. After breakfast we all hopped into the Tap-Tap and headed to two different locations, Gertrud's and the Home of Sick and Dying Babies. The two groups were decided by our prayer groups, Martin and Margie's prayer groups went to Gertrud's while Rachel and Kevin's groups went to the Home of Sick and Dying Babies.
The Home of Sick and Dying Babies:
This Home is run by a group of Nuns who have given a vow to live a life of poverty and help sick children in any way they can. They give free care and medicine to the children and never ask for anything they may need. The Nuns believe God will provide what they need. One of our leader's will go look in the store room when we are there and take note of what they are low on, then they will let Healing Haiti know so they can tell the next groups coming down what to bring.
As we walked into the Home, we saw children and their mother's everywhere. The mother's that have children receiving care here are able to see them for 1 hour every morning. We went into the two rooms and immediately were asked to hold children. Some people were moved to hold one child the whole time we were there, while others felt they needed to give several children some attention. The children were so happy to have us there and so was the staff. We also had the wonderful opportunity of changing some diapers... and yes a few children had gone #2. When the moms left there went from about 2 or 3 crying babies to 30. There wasn't enough of us to help all the babies. It breaks your heart to see them crying as hard as they were and know you can't do anything to help them because your hands were already full. We had to realize we couldn't help all the children, but we could help one, which is still a huge help for the Nuns. The food was brought out and many of the children began to stop crying and wanted to be fed. The Nuns or their helpers would point to a child and hand us a bowl of stew to feed them. Many of the children would eat the stew so fast, while other were so sick that they wouldn't want to eat much. It is hard to see these beautiful children and realize how sick they are. The cool thing is, no matter how sick a child was, we were still given strength through God to pick them up and love them. Overall, we were able to share God's love with these little children just through our actions.
Posted By Nicole
The Home of Sick and Dying Babies:
This Home is run by a group of Nuns who have given a vow to live a life of poverty and help sick children in any way they can. They give free care and medicine to the children and never ask for anything they may need. The Nuns believe God will provide what they need. One of our leader's will go look in the store room when we are there and take note of what they are low on, then they will let Healing Haiti know so they can tell the next groups coming down what to bring.
As we walked into the Home, we saw children and their mother's everywhere. The mother's that have children receiving care here are able to see them for 1 hour every morning. We went into the two rooms and immediately were asked to hold children. Some people were moved to hold one child the whole time we were there, while others felt they needed to give several children some attention. The children were so happy to have us there and so was the staff. We also had the wonderful opportunity of changing some diapers... and yes a few children had gone #2. When the moms left there went from about 2 or 3 crying babies to 30. There wasn't enough of us to help all the babies. It breaks your heart to see them crying as hard as they were and know you can't do anything to help them because your hands were already full. We had to realize we couldn't help all the children, but we could help one, which is still a huge help for the Nuns. The food was brought out and many of the children began to stop crying and wanted to be fed. The Nuns or their helpers would point to a child and hand us a bowl of stew to feed them. Many of the children would eat the stew so fast, while other were so sick that they wouldn't want to eat much. It is hard to see these beautiful children and realize how sick they are. The cool thing is, no matter how sick a child was, we were still given strength through God to pick them up and love them. Overall, we were able to share God's love with these little children just through our actions.
Posted By Nicole
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