(Warning: Some photos will be graphic.)

You may be asking, “How in the world did this little baby get burned so badly?” Here is the story…

Madamn Cherie Esperanda is the mother of little Bivensle, whom they call “Bensley.” They live in the poor village of “Nan Boulay.” Madamn Cherie goes to the Pine Forest to buy vegetables so that she can sell them in “Croix-des-Bouquets,” which is now taken over by gangs. Since the roads were blocked by gangs, she could not do her “selling business.” To make matters worse, she was pregnant and waiting for another baby. So, she had to go and live with her mother and father in order to get food to eat.

Bensley had fallen into boiling water “two days prior to moving to her parent’s house,” but due to all the gangs, his mother could not make it to a hospital. How in the world did this child get burned so badly?

In their small, simple “Haitian home,” sticks, mud, and an outdoor kitchen, a “wet nurse” wanted to “boil water” for a neighbor who had just had a baby. (Haitians have “superstitions” and “old wives’ tales” handed down. They want to keep the steam of the boiling hot water in the vagina of a woman who had just had a baby, a neighbor.)

Bensley had fallen into the big tub of boiling water. In the midst of all this, Baby Bensley’s father abandoned them and went to the Dominican Republic. Madamn Cherie found it hard to get to a hospital with Bensley, due to all the gangs in the streets… So, the only way she knew how to treat his burns was “boiled water!” Of course, this increased the pain and made matters worse for his skin.

She finally found a hospital for Bensley, but the only thing they gave him for burns was “oil.” (Maybe baby oil?) I cannot imagine the pain!

Suddenly, someone advised her to come to the Jesus Healing Center. She found a way to bring her badly burned baby to our Clinic… When she arrived, little Bensley was swiftly taken to our ER.

The doctor gave pain medicine first to Bensley. Then, they began the job of “cleaning the burns and applying the special Silvadene Burn Cream and wrapped his wounds to keep infection out.” Of course, he was given pain medicine and medicine for infection. She is to bring Bensley back in four days.

In Haiti now, with the gangs taking over businesses, and even some universities, and streets, it is difficult to get a sick child or adult to any hospital. We are so happy that she made it to our Jesus Healing Center!

Thank you, partners, who helped us in so many ways for this wonderful, peaceful, and excellent clinic! And God bless Joyce Meyer Ministries – Hand of Hope, for their monthly support for our Clinic and other partners who give.

Thank you most of all, for your love for the Haitian people, in the middle of their tragedies.

Sherry

P.S. Madamn Cherie is to bring Bensley back in four days…