Kay Angel

GREAT CHANGE FOR ESTANIA AND YOUSELINE

Estania and Youseline really lucked out today when we were at the hospital for their monthly check up at the aids program. Both of them finally are weighing enough to be put on the combination pil Combivir, instead of having to drink the cocktail. Would they go home before with a heavy backpack full of bottles of 3TC, AZT and NVP; today they went home with just 1 very light bottle with 60 pills for the month.

A PONY WALKER AND A NEW WHEEL CHAIR FOR MARTIN

Martin had a great visit from Team Canada Healing Hands today. They brought him a pony walker and a new wheelchair. Just on time since his old wheelchair was really starting to fall apart. Team Canada Healing hands has been very supportive of Martin since the day Colleen O’Connell (Medical Doctor, Neuro rehabilitation) met him at Pazapa 2.5 years ago. First thing she did was prescribing custom made braces for his feet, which we received free of charge through their organization. Then we have had several visits already from their various teams to provide Martin with great physiotherapy at home.

VISIT FROM DORIS FRAME AND SISTER SANDY

Doris Frame is a very special and dear friend to Kay Angel and has visited us several times after the earthquake. In her own words, she feels like a grandma to our kids, and hopes to always be able to come and visit and see the kids grow up. So we call her Grandma Doris.

TUESDAY JUNE 21st 2011 WATER-PUMP INSTALLED.

Today Leon Miller and his assistant from “Water for Life” came to install the water-pump. In this picture you see them testing how much water is being pumped up.

DAY 1 OF CONSTRUCTION OF KAY ANGEL ON SACRIFICE

TUESDAY MAY 3RD

After a lot of preparation and planning we finally really started the work on our new land today.When I woke up at 6 AM this morning I could hardly believe it is finally all really happening. It was a very special feeling of joy, relieve and of-course anticipation as well, since the next 6 to 8 months will be very intense for me.

Hurricane TOMAS passed…and cholera is spreading

Now that electricity is back on and the internet signal back in the air,I can send you all a sign of life from Jakmel, Haiti.

We have been extremely lucky that TOMAS changed it’s course and passed us much more to the west. At first the prediction was that he would come straight over Jakmel.

New Land: “SACRIFICE”

Sacrifice in French or in English is the name of a beautiful piece of land that we were able to purchase with great financial help from our donors in The Netherlands. This is where we will rebuild our orphanage. The expectations are that it will take years before the clean up in Haiti is completed, and buildings will be rebuild. So it is really fantastic that we found this piece of land just outside the city of Jakmel to rebuild our orphanage.

Sacrifice was owned by a very good friend of mine, Reginald Turnier, who “sacrificed” it to us for a very reasonable price.

Kay Angel Orphanage’s New Temporary Home – Jacmel, Haiti

In 2 days, on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 May 2010 we build a temp house with the help of Dave Bird from  Calvary Chapel and his group of 12 volunteers.

For weeks now the rainy season is in full gear. Lots of heavy rains, wind and too many problems for all of us who are living in tent camps. There is mud everywhere, the water with mud enters our Unicef tent every-time it rains.

The plastic roof that covers our daytime area does not hold up under the heavy rain etc etc.

A New Car For the Orphanage

Thursday 29 April 2010:

I am madly in Love……………………….

with our new car:  A great Toyota Granvia minivan, diesel, 4 cylinders, 3 liter engine, imported straight from Japan by a local car-dealer, year 1996, only 80,000 miles on it   This car makes such a difference in our life, makes life so much less stressful, gives us freedom and a little more normalcy in life again, even-though the orphanage still lives in tents.

Martin’s Trip To Haiti Report

Visiting Haiti has never been easy.  After a few trips, though, I had gotten used to the nation’s peculiar blend of chaos and charm.  Post-earthquake, the recipe has changed.  “Now with Extra Chaos!” is the unfortunate, new reality in Haiti.

You would think that the flood of media images would have appropriately set my expectations, but they couldn’t suppress the visions of the suffering witnessed by buildings like these:

There are tents everywhere now.  On fields, by the side of the road, and even on median strips of major city streets.  Three feet and a thin sheet of Coleman Nylon is all that separates people’s “bedrooms” from honking, speeding, diesel-spewing, 24/7 traffic.