I'm going to Haiti with 12 others, including my daughter Beth.
Currently I'm starting to pack, get my lists together, buying a few things online ahead of time.
I've e-mail my family asking for donations of money which I will use to buy school supplies which the community school we'll be working on needs. In Haiti, parents must buy school supplies for their kids, and many cannot afford to do so. So we'll be using a big portion of our suitcases to carry the school supplies. I'm also putting a box in our break room at work (ExaGrid Systems) to collect school supplies. One thing I plan to buy is a whole bunch of $4 calculators from Staples, figuring that's one item that must be hard to find or is expensive in Haiti.
The web sites with more info about the places we'll be in Haiti are:
www.eglisebaptisteconcorde.com
www.onemissionsociety.org - which mentions the OMS "villa ormiso" where we're living
The first web site is in Haitian creole - mostly French, but with differences. My daughter can read it, but I can't. She likes showing me up like that :-)
Blessings,
Tom
My friends and family have stepped up with over $400 for buying school supplies. I bought out a small portion of Staples today and the extra bag with all the supplies is 42 lbs - about 8 under the limit. Now if I only knew whether our group can take that extra bag or not. Delta's excess baggage charge is $100 - so I may just end up using the remainder of the money to "ship" these supplies to Haiti.
ReplyDeleteI'm very proud of my daughter - did you read her post? Amazing. God is good.