When a mother dies and leaves a child behind, the Social Affairs Department of Haiti can consider this child an “orphan.” A poor father cannot take care of a baby… He will try to “give it away,” or take him to Social Services, or give him to family to become a “restavek slave.”

When Job’s mother, Viergelie Bonheur, died, his father, Ellis Augustin, brought him to an orphanage in Haiti that could not keep him. They contacted us and we took him in… We try to find Bible names for our children and so he is “Job!” He will be 14 in a couple of months. He is the “tallest kid in the Children’s Home,” and I think he will keep on growing!

He gets up every morning at 4:30 AM with the boys and starts to work… On Saturdays, the kids sleep in until 5:30 AM. Job gets the early morning stuff to do… sweeping, watering the plants, taking the trash out, and just about anything!!! He will do “exactly what you want him to do!” We love this kid! He has learned to play the bass guitar, and plays each night at “Children’s Church!” He is still thinking about his future, but whatever he decides he will be good at it!!! I call him “pie`bwa kokoye,” or coconut tree! We love Job! – Sherry