A grandfather came to our house this week with his granddaughter. Fedna Jeantilien is approximately 8-years-old. She doesn't know how old she is or her birthdate and neither does the grandfather. Fedna spent some time in the Dominican Republic with her family until her father died. The mother brought her back to Haiti and then took off. Since then the grandfather is trying to raise her. How old do you think she is? We will need to get a birth certificate made for her. She is one of quite a few people in Haiti who are never registered as being born. She needs an identity and a birth certificate. She is one of our new admissions to the school program post-earthquake here at Coram Deo.
Darlene and Blandine Tarrene are both sisters. Their school was destroyed in the earthquake and the mother came with them hoping that we would take them into our program here to finish the year. They started school this week too here at Coram Deo! Pray for all the school programs in Port-au-Prince that are re-opening to provide the children with an education.
Every room in the house has earthquake cracks. Based on that I told the guys to rip off the paneling from the kitchen walls to see what was behind.
The worst earthquake cracks in the house were behind the paneling! There was even a separation in the wall by the kitchen door. It didn't make me feel very comfortable.
The shaking that took place during the earthquake rattled the house. The problem in construction of homes here in Port-au-Prince is the "carriere sab" limestone sand that was used to mix mortar. The sand ate the cement mortar leaving it brittle and it turned to powder during the earthquake. Buildings that didn't have strong supports fell. You can see evidence of this mortar powder in our kitchen wall. Next week we will continue to make earthquake repairs to the house.
A grandfather came to our house this week with his granddaughter. Fedna Jeantilien is approximately 8-years-old. She doesn't know how old she is or her birthdate and neither does the grandfather. Fedna spent some time in the Dominican Republic with her family until her father died. The mother brought her back to Haiti and then took off. Since then the grandfather is trying to raise her. How old do you think she is? We will need to get a birth certificate made for her. She is one of quite a few people in Haiti who are never registered as being born. She needs an identity and a birth certificate. She is one of our new admissions to the school program post-earthquake here at Coram Deo.
Darlene and Blandine Tarrene are both sisters. Their school was destroyed in the earthquake and the mother came with them hoping that we would take them into our program here to finish the year. They started school this week too here at Coram Deo! Pray for all the school programs in Port-au-Prince that are re-opening to provide the children with an education.
Every room in the house has earthquake cracks. Based on that I told the guys to rip off the paneling from the kitchen walls to see what was behind.
The worst earthquake cracks in the house were behind the paneling! There was even a separation in the wall by the kitchen door. It didn't make me feel very comfortable.
The shaking that took place during the earthquake rattled the house. The problem in construction of homes here in Port-au-Prince is the "carriere sab" limestone sand that was used to mix mortar. The sand ate the cement mortar leaving it brittle and it turned to powder during the earthquake. Buildings that didn't have strong supports fell. You can see evidence of this mortar powder in our kitchen wall. Next week we will continue to make earthquake repairs to the house.
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I hope you can give Fedna a birth date on a day that is not known to be rainy or too hot. Every year except for 2, that I can remember, it's been rainy on my birthday. That gets old. I remember someone told me that on his birthday it was always too hot to do anything. So please give her a good weather date if you can. With no mother and father, she needs something good, even if it's just weather. (The immigrants I worked with often had 2 birth dates. The one they were born with and the one the person doing the paperwork to enter this country assigned because they didn't know the date or the year. That was fun for them to have 2 birthdays and be 2 different ages!)
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