School Supplies & Injuries

Many times Operation Ukraine has gathered up school supplies for schools all over the world but we’ve often wondered if the school supplies ever get to the children themselves. You hear on the news that the items aren’t getting to the people in Haiti but that is not the case this time. Today Osmy, Lifeline’s Haitian Director, and I delivered school bags from Freed-Hardeman Christian University in Henderson, Tennessee to three different schools and school supplies from Operation Ukraine to another school.

The notebook in this picture was shipped down on a container from October. You could see that she had been using it.

It was a blessing to see that previous school supplies and book bags that had been shipped down to Lifeline had been passed out to the children. Even though we had seen these items being used, there is still a continual need for spiral notebooks and notebook paper, pens, pencils, and other school supplies. Remember that there is no local Walmart to get the supplies at. The school that we gave the school supplies to was also blessed with all kinds of hair accessories for the little girls. When three little boys from the kindergarten class cried because they didn’t get hair ribbons, I gave them each hair bands for their arms and their tears instantly quit. It may have been a small gift but they loved it!

Later on in the day we saw many more tears; this time from injuries. We saw a child who had fallen in the rocks, we changed the dressing on our precious burned child, Jiggens, and finished off with a little boy with mysterious puss filled scabs.

We treated him and told his friend to bring him back to the doctor in the morning. Unfortunately, we see many mysterious funguses that you normally wouldn’t see in the States. Praise the Lord that we have a doctor here that can treat their illnesses.

If you are interested in giving backpacks, school supplies, or really any other item to Haiti, there are containers shipped monthly from Operation Ukraine in Columbus Mississippi. Email Donna Web at lifelinedw@bellsouth.net for more information on how you can be part of blessing these precious children!

-Kathy Cadden from Operation Ukraine