Smile Network Cleft Lip and Palette Surgeries

The Smile Network team is busy performing cleft lip and palette surgeries. They plan on doing 25 surgeries this week. Yesterday a lady and her child both had their cleft lips repaired. This morning we brought a boy and his father to the hospital. You can tell that the boy is embarrassed. He won't look at people. After surgery people won't be able to tease him anymore! The patients operated on yesterday were discharged from the hospital this morning to make room for the new patients being admitted this morning. Last night we brought a meal for the patient's families. We give the Lord thanks for the Manna Pack meals that we receive each month from Feed My Starving Children and distributed in Haiti by Love A Child. With these meals we can feed around 3,000 people each month :)

John Espoir - Centre Rehabilitation

I was talking with my sister today about John and physiotherapy. Now that we have an empty living room we want to achieve the dream I had when I first moved into this house in the year 2000. We are going to establish the CENTRE DE REHABILITATION DE JOHN ESPOIR. In this way John will continue to live on helping others with their handicaps. As much as John loved music we are going to decorate the living room in bright murals. Espoir means hope and we want to give hope to the people in Haiti. Please keep this dream in prayer. It can be done :)

Repainting The Living Room

Ken and Andrea moved out their clinic on Saturday. The guys here gave them a helping hand at loading the material onto their truck and helping them unload it at their new site. We wish them well.  It wasn't until a couple of years after the earthquake that Ed Amos needed a place to hold his medical clinics. My dream ever since moving into the house where we have been since 2000 was to have a place where physiotherapy could be done. Not many missions work with the handicapped and this was an area where we wanted to help in. I found a place right near the corner of Delmas 31 where the tap-taps stop and where there is a motorcycle taxi stand. This makes it easy for handicapped people to get to our house. The living room is a good size and was sort of being used as only a living room and storage area. After the earthquake and seeing that Ed was without a clinic site I thought that maybe God was leading us to host a medical clinic. Ed stayed a couple of years and then Ken took the clinic over. The clinic grew and we tried to accommodate the growth as well as running the school program. The front bedroom became the pharmacy room :) We were blessed with a container and then the other bedroom in the house served as a depot. This left us able to use the kitchen and my bedroom. We were feeling cramped and the clinic was cramped too. Now the clinic has moved out, and we have one bedroom for storage and one bedroom for guests. The guys painted the new living room from the clinic white color to the same colour as the rest of the house on Saturday :) They had a lot of fun.  Please keep this room in prayer. I still haven't given up on my dream of having a site for physiotherapy :) Pray too for Ken and Andrea as they set up their new location.

Ottawa Visitors

 

Thursday we had a visit from Jeffrey Nault and his team from the Ottawa, Ontario region of Canada. We love having visitors. Years ago there was a plea made in Canada on television stations for a translator to help my sister Tanya do translating for John's paperwork. Jeffrey Nault and his wife used to work at Grace Children's Hospital in the 1970's. They moved back to Canada and when he saw the news he contacted my sister to help John. Jeffrey Nault and his wife still lead teams to Haiti. He visited us a couple of years ago and told us of his story with John. It is neat how John has brought so many people together. His team visited us and brought us some gifts and supplies. Some of their gifts were something that only Canadians could appreciate - things like Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leaf sandals! We are going to have to find some special children worthy of wearing these Canadian sandals :) One of the team members works in a hospital in the recovery room. Doctors and staff put a suitcase of medical supplies together to bring to us. This gift comes at the right time. Ken and Andrea's clinic moved out on Saturday to another location and we will be needing to source our own medical supplies in the future. One of the team members came with his ukulele and Manu joined him in playing music. They played well together and knew many songs! Another of the team members first language growing up was French as she lived in Quebec. She was able to greet and talk with our school students. The team prepared care packages of supplies that can be handed out to the mothers that come here to stay for hydrocephalus and plastic surgeries. That same day we handed out some of these care bags to mothers that came in from the Southern part of Haiti to see the Smile Network team that is doing surgeries at Bernard Mevs Hospital. Thank you to our Ottawa area friends and we hope to see you again on your next visit to Haiti :) We give the Lord thanks for visitors who come and help out here in Haiti.

 

 

Jeffrey Nault Ottawa Area Mission Team - Ukele/Guitar

Thursday morning, Jeff Nault came with a team from the Ottawa, Ontario area. One of the team members came with his ukulele and he played some music with Manu playing the guitar. They played well. We look forward to the next visit that this team makes to Haiti :) Below is a video of one of the songs that they played.