Merry Christmas from leaders, staff, teachers and the children at the Gift of God Orphanage.
Our six graduating kindergarten students.
Our kindergarten graduates with Papa Smith at Graduation Party
Some of the boys at the orphanage help build new bunk beds for our teen boys.
The girls are learning how to sew on donated treadle sewing machines.
The children piled into the back of the new truck for an outing to the National Historic Park.
The children visited the National Historic Park in June.
This is the truck we are hoping to purchase for the ministry in Haiti. It will
serve three purposes: transporting mission teams from the airport to the
orphanage; taking the children on outings; hauling supplies i.e. flour, beans
and rice. Right now your gift towards the purchase of this vehicle will be
doubled due to a matching grant.
The children had their first experience going to a restaurant and eating
a hamburger with a great mission team from Colorado.
Little Mackenter took a tumble and needed a few stitches in his head. He was
very brave while the medical team at the military base fixed him up.
The children in the orphanage were treated with a New Year's Feast.
During Christmas break from school, some of the older boys at the
orphanage learn how to work in the Bakery.
Children at the orphanage enjoy little Christmas gifts.
The Bakery Project is moving along. Ovens have
been installed and counters built. We are waiting
for a key piece of equipment that is being built in Haiti.
While many schools collapsed in the earthquake, the
orphanage children attend classes on the orphanage site.
3 Teachers have been hired to teach the
children on-site at the orphanage.
The goal is to move the 51 children to the new
orphanage site by September 2010.
After a hard day's work, it's time for a little fun with the children.
During the 4-day July trip, 80+ trusses were assembled. The Haitian workers
will attach the roofing panels, finish the interior walls and install a septic system.
In August, another team from the Omaha area will return to complete electrical,
plumbing and painting.
In July 2010, another team from the Iowa/Nebraska area returned to
show the Haitian workers how to construct a roof truss system.
(Concrete roofs are the norm in Haiti and the reason many people
were crushed in the earthquake.) This new system will provide
shelter from the sun and rain without the danger of crush injuries.
When the US team left in June, the Haitian workers remained
busy completing the walls and pouring the floors in the dormitories
and the courtyard area.
Haitian workers were anxious to learn new ways to construct buildings
that will withstand tropical storms and earthquakes.
Haitians and Americans worked side-by-side to build a safe home for the children.
Construction began in June 2010 when a team
from Iowa & Nebraska arrived to set footings and
begin block work on the dormitory and shower
buildings. Everything must be done by hand from
digging out footings with a pick-axe to carrying
cement for the footings bucket by bucket.
After the land was cleared, a well was drilled to provide water for the new orphanage.
Since the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, children from the orphanage are
sleeping in military-type tents set up in the courtyard area of the rental house.
Site of the new orphanage before construction began.
Our kindergarten graduates with Papa Smith at Graduation Party
Some of the boys at the orphanage help build new bunk beds for our teen boys.
The girls are learning how to sew on donated treadle sewing machines.
The children piled into the back of the new truck for an outing to the National Historic Park.
The children visited the National Historic Park in June.
This is the truck we are hoping to purchase for the ministry in Haiti. It will
serve three purposes: transporting mission teams from the airport to the
orphanage; taking the children on outings; hauling supplies i.e. flour, beans
and rice. Right now your gift towards the purchase of this vehicle will be
doubled due to a matching grant.
The children had their first experience going to a restaurant and eating
a hamburger with a great mission team from Colorado.
Little Mackenter took a tumble and needed a few stitches in his head. He was
very brave while the medical team at the military base fixed him up.
The children in the orphanage were treated with a New Year's Feast.
During Christmas break from school, some of the older boys at the
orphanage learn how to work in the Bakery.
Children at the orphanage enjoy little Christmas gifts.
The Bakery Project is moving along. Ovens have
been installed and counters built. We are waiting
for a key piece of equipment that is being built in Haiti.
While many schools collapsed in the earthquake, the
orphanage children attend classes on the orphanage site.
3 Teachers have been hired to teach the
children on-site at the orphanage.
The goal is to move the 51 children to the new
orphanage site by September 2010.
After a hard day's work, it's time for a little fun with the children.
During the 4-day July trip, 80+ trusses were assembled. The Haitian workers
will attach the roofing panels, finish the interior walls and install a septic system.
In August, another team from the Omaha area will return to complete electrical,
plumbing and painting.
In July 2010, another team from the Iowa/Nebraska area returned to
show the Haitian workers how to construct a roof truss system.
(Concrete roofs are the norm in Haiti and the reason many people
were crushed in the earthquake.) This new system will provide
shelter from the sun and rain without the danger of crush injuries.
When the US team left in June, the Haitian workers remained
busy completing the walls and pouring the floors in the dormitories
and the courtyard area.
Haitian workers were anxious to learn new ways to construct buildings
that will withstand tropical storms and earthquakes.
Haitians and Americans worked side-by-side to build a safe home for the children.
Construction began in June 2010 when a team
from Iowa & Nebraska arrived to set footings and
begin block work on the dormitory and shower
buildings. Everything must be done by hand from
digging out footings with a pick-axe to carrying
cement for the footings bucket by bucket.
After the land was cleared, a well was drilled to provide water for the new orphanage.
Since the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, children from the orphanage are
sleeping in military-type tents set up in the courtyard area of the rental house.
Site of the new orphanage before construction began.