We were doing a television program in the village of Madamn Bauje years ago. We had been there to do a Food Distribution, and to talk about the need for food and how so many children in Haiti were hungry… how they had red, straw-like hair from malnutrition and that they had very little to eat.

As I was waiting on Bobby to do the Ministry segment, out of the corner of my eyes, I saw an old Haitian Grandma with a little baby in her arms. The baby had malnutrition and red hair, and she was sucking on her thumbs. Her Grandma had a small handful of rice she was feeding the baby and then, Grandma set her on the ground and walked away. The baby played in the dirt, and started eating the dirt! It was as if I heard the same voice speak to my heart, as I had heard so many times before… “If you leave her here, she will die…”

I picked her up and asked her Grandma if we could take her home, and she quickly agreed. Her stepmother told me that the baby, “Ti Mika,” was two but it was hard to believe… We brought her home and raised her here at our Children’s Home. Now, Ti Mika is a pretty young girl… She is now 12 and doing well in school. She loves to sing, loves church, and loves to “baby-sit.” She has a smile “a yard long.” A few years ago, I went back and visited Ti Mika’s Grandma and showed her a picture. She was laying on a mat on the ground in her mud hut… She looked at the picture, smiled, and said, “Now I can die happy because Ti Mika is well.” She has a smile like no other.  –  Sherry