Sunday 28 February 2010: Last night my very good friend Andrew Bigosinski from Cine Institute called me to tell me that there is a whole crew made up of gaffers and grip that came in from New York with a container full of donated generators and other electrical equipment. They call themselves Friends of Cine [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Saturday 6 February 2010: Over the last 2 days I received many calls from my Dutch friend Geert van der Kolk, via a satellite phone from a boat. He is a journalist, writer who lives in Washington DC. He is also a very good sailor, and has made many trips to Jakmel on his sailboat [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday 27 January 2010: Our work in progress. Since yesterday morning we have been very busy with cleaning up our little piece of land, and constructing our new little tent village. Some friends of mine have come to help us with this big job, and Frantz our director, Rochel our security guy and Tizepi have [...]
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday 23 January 2010 ~ Jacmel Haiti When the crew from RTL 4 News was here, they gave us some medical supplies from their travel survival kit. Some of it we can use very well, but other items like blood plasma, and lots of gauze we do not need for the moment. So in the [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Wednesday 20 January 2010 This morning at 6.02 AM a big aftershock that luckily only lasted for about 4 seconds, but everything was shaking a lot. Around 10 AM 2 people from WFP came to see us at the orphanage and were able to tell me that it was a strength 6. Yesterday afternoon we [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Luke, one of our founders, arrived in Jacmel today with an SUV full of antibiotics, painkillers, IV fluids and other critically-needed medical supplies. Late Sunday night, he and a friend arrived in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. On Monday, they purchased an entire drugstore’s supply of prescription medicine, stuffed them into an [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tuesday 19 January 2010: The last 2 nights we have slept inside the TV room of the hotel across the street. There is a rain front coming over us since Saturday night, so we are lucky the hotel lets us use their space, but we are not able to stay there. They will need their [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
Sunday 17 january 2010 Tonight we will sleep indoors again. Last night we had a rough night, there was a lot of rain all night long, very cold, we all got wet. Today we organized ourselves across the street into the “living-room” of the hotel. This morning we took the smaller cribs out of the [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Hi Everybody, We are all alive and none of us is injured, by a miracle, mere timing kept us alive, a few minutes earlier or later and most of our kids and me would have been dead. But………. we are homeless, The orphanage is still standing, but totally unsafe. A recap of Tuesday 12 January [...]
Sylvaince’s grandmother came to us and asked if we could care for Sylvaince as she was to old to properly care for him. About a month later His older brother Yakime joined him. At the time of the boys arrival their grandmother told us that the boys mother had passed away and that their father had never been around. Later we found out that their mother was still alive and living outside the country. Read more about Yakime →
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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