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An overview of Sacrifice, the fence blends in nicely with the surroundings

After we drilled our well on May 3rd at Sacrifice, we also right away started with the fence around our property. Unfortunately it is really necessary in Haiti to fence off your property for security reasons.

The area is just so beautiful and the view is amazing that we did not want to put a stone wall around it, with barbwire on top, which is the typical way of fencing in Haiti. That would have been too disruptive to the eye.

Instead we have chosen a more friendly looking iron fence. The individual panels of this fence are locally welded and painted by the students of the vocational school of Calvary Chapel under supervision of Dave Bird and his welder. All students of their vocational school are mute and deaf, and are being taught an occupation tuition free.

A beautiful initiative by Calvary Chapel.

Digging the foundation for the stone wall

At the higher end of Sacrifice we first build a low stone wall with natural rocks. This as a preventive measure for the rainy season and hurricane season. If during those seasons a lot of water comes down the mountain, our land will be protected against the little streams of water which could occur. On top of this wall we will later weld the iron panels.

The stone wall follows the decent of the land

Boss Patrick, in blue t-shirt, is our neighbor and lives in the house above our wall

Estania

At some parts of the land the ground is full of rocks, which caused quite some extra work for our locally hired labors to dig the holes where the posts will be placed into the ground. Hammer and chisel had to be used.

The workshop of Calvary Chapel

Dave Bird checks the work on the panels

The students are painting the panels with anti-rust paint, almost the same color as the earth at Sacrifice

The kids are playing “train”

The panels are welded together on site

Yakime climbing the korosol tree

The kids hanging out on the tomb of Idoris

I take the kids to Sacrifice all the time, and they feel right at home here.
They love all the lime trees, and since it is the season now we take home a lot of limes
to make juice. Good for their vitamin C!!!
It is great to watch them run around, play “train” all over the land, climbing trees, like Yakime in the korosol tree.
They love to take a break from time to time on the tomb of Idoris, where there is a lot of shade.
They have made that spot their hang-out right away. It is so sweet to hear them talk to Idoris and greet him.
And of course it is great for Idoris to have the other kids around as well.