October 22-26, 2013

A Haitian Creole Proverb…

“Bondye di ou fe pati ou ak mwen pral fe m’.” 


“God says you do your part and I’ll do mine.”

Not far from our Love A Child compound is the village of Fond Bayard. These Haitian people live in small houses that were built especially for them. However, in nearly all of these tiny houses there are two families living in each house. The houses consist of two rooms and a small porch. The sad story of these people is that they are “deportees,” who tried to cross the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic to find work because they were hungry. The only way they could get jobs in Haiti was illegally.

 

When they were deported, an organization built these small houses for them and put up a huge sign in the front that declares: “These people are deportees from the Dominican Republic.”

 

Now, no one wants to have much to do with these deportees. The Dominican Republic does not want them back, and Haiti won’t have anything to do with them either. They are in “no man’s land,” not far from the Border.

When we heard about their plight, we sent one of our workers named Ezekiel into the village. He went from house to house getting the family names and how many were in each family.   We then made  “Food Cards” for each family and promised them we would come back with food.

This was our first food distribution to this village.

Look at all the happy faces of “hope.”

Men, women and children left with big boxes of food.

Special thanks to Feed My Starving Children for donating this food.

Love A Child must pay the land transportation from Minnesota to Miami, and the shipping freight costs from Miami to Haiti. Then Love A Child pays Customs fees, and transportation from the dock in Port-au-Prince to Fond Parisien, Haiti. That cost is $10,000 per 40-foot container, which contains 270,000 meals.

The value of this food is $65,000 from Feed My Starving Children, making a “leverage value of 6.5 times” for each container. That means, that for each $10,000, we are receiving $65,000 worth of food!

If you would like to help feed hungry children, please call our office at 239-210-6107.

Each gift counts, large or small, and every penny is important!

God bless you,

Sherry