Diapers!

Many newborns go through about ten diapers a day or seventy a week. There are many people who use cloth diapers and have to wash those out every time they’re used. Now imagine not having pampers or cloth diapers. Imagine having only tiny pieces of fabric to use for your children. Imagine how much laundry you’d have to do. Now imagine not having a washing machine and having to do it all by hand in the canal because you don’t have running water! That’s what life is like for the Haitian mothers here. Most women can’t afford diapers and most don’t even have the cloth ones to wash out so they are constantly doing laundry as their children soil their clothes a few times a day. That’s why some mothers sometimes let their little children run around naked because they say it’s easier to give the child a bath then clean their clothes all day long. Now you can understand why we had tons of women lined up outside our gate when word got out that we now have diapers for the village. One of the last containers we received had a few boxes of diapers and we were so excited to hand them out! We are so grateful that a kind donor thought to send us these for the moms here. It means so much to them. Praise God for diapers!