He is 14 years old, but looks older. He is just finishing 9th grade here in Haiti. Raphael and his sisters came from Cape Haitian, the northern area of Haiti. His aunt brought these children to us in poor condition. She had told the story about their parents fleeing to the States on a small...
You may be asking what our agricultural workers are doing? They are preparing moringa leaves from moringa trees in our Agricultural Training Center. There will be a lot of malnourished children and parents in poor health coming to our next Mobile Clinic, due to the conditions in Haiti at this time. The moringa tree is...
God can turn your setback into a “comeback!” Have you ever heard the saying, “Two steps forward and three steps back?” Maybe you have worked so hard at something only to find out that it has “backfired.” You had great plans, but now the plans have failed, and you feel like a “failure.” Don’t feel...
Jackson should have died years ago, but he has survived “against all odds!” We found this young boy with his huge stomach in the mountains of Savaan Pit, Haiti. We were conducting a Mobile Medical Clinic when he was brought to us by his uncle. I picked Jackson up, and he “almost broke my back!”...
Last Friday, we visited a family in the village of “Fonbaya,” not far from the border. We listened to this grandmother, Madamn Delcius, tell her story of trying to raise her five grandchildren “with no food to eat.” She poured out her heart to us as she told her story… her son-in-law was beating her...
What a blessing! The Lord gives an abundance! God bless Wilner and our Agricultural Training Center (ATC) people. The little green onions are sweet, and the citron is like a lime. Sustainability, helping Haitians to help themselves. Thank you to everyone who helps financially, and to David Balsbaugh, President of Hope Seeds International, Inc., and...
Life in Haiti is brutal, and every member of the family must work to survive. Your heart will break as you watch children walk barefoot across rocky terrain looking for something to eat, while other children crush a handful of food, meant to feed themselves and their siblings for the day, in a pilon. They...
"Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear." Isaiah 59:1 Don’t be discouraged praying for that loved one when "he or she" is not saved yet. God's timing is not our timing... Years ago, while we were working in the village of "Old Letant,"...
We took Stephanie in after her mother died. We raised her and sent her to a local college here. She has become one of our best workers here in our Love A Child office. She has a little boy, and her fiancé works here at Love A Child, also. A few months ago, she took...
“As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” Proverbs 25:25 To those of you who want to know the challenges of raising 85 children, many with sicknesses and severe deformities, you can imagine how good it is to hear good news of a child with a serious handicap....
