Love Bundles, Kitchen Boxes, And a Trip to St. Marc

The day started off with a young 12 year old girl coming to the porch for treatment who had been hit by a motorcycle last week. The motorcycles drive so fast through our little village and sometimes don’t watch for the little kids running through the streets. Thankfully the young girl was ok and walked away with a few scrapes on her legs and chin. Her mother came with her today and looked like she was going to give birth any day now. We found out that the family is very poor so Lifeline was able to bless their family of 7 about to be 8 with beans from a number of schools in Clarksville, Tennessee. How wonderful it is that food and other supplies for Haiti come from all over the world!

Later in the day, Lifeline was able to hand out love bundles to a new school that we will begin feeding. The area that the school is located in is way out in the middle of farm land but is full of children who need to be fed. Many of the children in the area have hair that has tuned red/orange from protein malnourishment. They will greatly benefit from being fed with Lifeline’s feeding program and from the peanut butter they received in their love bundles.

When we returned back, we were told that there was a man whose hemoglobin levels were almost to the point of death and needed to be rushed to the hospital in St. Marc, which is 40 miles away. Donald and I went along with a member of the man’s family to the hospital where prior to his admission his family had to scrape together the money before he would even be seen. This was one of the first times that one of Lifeline’s workers didn’t pay for the fees out of their own pocket. Lifeline is in desperate need of an emergency fund for situations such as this. Regularly emergency situations arise where Lifeline would like to help and most of those situations are not planned for in the operational budget but need to be taken care of immediately. Please keep this man in your prayers as cancer is suspected and Haiti does not have good cancer treatment programs like we do in the States.

The night was ended by Lifeline blessing two families with kitchen boxes and buckets full of towels, food, pots, silverware, storage containers, matches, candles, wash cloths, dish washing detergent, strainers, potato mashers, a stainless steel cooking pot and much, much more! The two families were so appreciative.

They were both really impoverished. We are so grateful for the kind donors from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama and Operation Ukraine who sent down these much needed gifts to the people of Haiti. Your kind gifts just made these families’ entire year!!

-Kathy Cadden