Kids Against Hunger

Every six seconds a child dies from hunger related diseases across the world. In Haiti one in ten children under the age of five will die before their fifth birthday and half of those deaths are a result of malnutrition. Thankfully, we at Lifeline have a partnership with Kids Against Hunger and they provide us with nutritious meals for the children we feed. The KAH food contains high-quality white rice, vitamin-fortified crushed soy, dehydrated blend of six vegetables, chicken-flavored vegetarian vitamin and mineral powder containing 21 essential vitamins and minerals. Tonight we were able to take this month's supply of the KAH food to an orphanage we feed. It's a blessing to know that these precious children won't turn into one of those statistics due to malnutrition!

Water in Barbancourt

For quite some time our well in Barbancourt has not been functioning and it was necessary for us to re-drill. Blue Ridge Ministries (a ministry here in Haiti dedicated to drilling wells) that had originally dug the first well opted to come back and re-drill a new well to try to find water that the people of Barbancourt need so desperately. Today after only drilling 300 feet, water was found and now we're able to retrieve water at eight gallons a minute and our hope is that the well will open up more and we will have an unlimited amount of clean water. To some people that might not seem like a big deal, but to have clean water is life to the people of Haiti. This water will not only give our school facilities clean water but it will be for the entire village in Barbancourt. It's something the people have long awaited. Praise the Lord for clean water!

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!

Blessing of Buckets!

Today 105 people in our village were blessed with amazing buckets from a group of Southern Baptists from Florida that have a mission in Haiti. The people were so happy to receive them as they were full of things everyone can use on a daily basis. The buckets were filled with rice, beans, oil, spaghetti, sugar, and flour. It’s such a blessing to team together with other mission groups in Haiti for the good of the Haitian people.

Back to School Backpack Giveaway

Have you ever imagined starting school without a backpack or school supplies? For many Haitian school children that’s the case. They don’t have the basic essentials they need. A few weeks ago we were able to supply our school children at Lifeline with their books that they needed but they also need pencils and paper and all the other things you need for school. Thankfully we had a generous donor who gave Lifeline backpacks full of school supplies and toiletries for our children. Today we handed out over 50 book bags to our students. They were so grateful! Many of them may have gone through school never having a bag of their own to carry their books and supplies. Praise God for the people who helped make this school year special for these kids!

Sunday blog II

I read this message on a shirt of one of our team members, and I felt it bear repeating! "WHEN THE MEDIA GOES THE SUFFERING DOES NOT STOP" This Sunday morning, as I was getting ready for church services here at Lifeline, I heard a man at the gate with his wife. I proceeded to find out what they needed and the pain began...It was the father and mother of the 8 year old girl that we had transported to the Saint Mark Hospital which is two hours away two days ago. They were here to tell that their young beautiful daughter had died. They had the x-rays from the hospital to show me, and reported that she died of tuberculosis. She also was very malnourished. Their request was could we take them back to the hospital to pick up her body so they could take her to the mountain where they live to bury her. Now that isn't all. You see we needed to go pick up this precious little girl that had died and then they have to walk about two hours with her body to the place where they will be burying her. Can you imagine after such a traumatic, painful experience and then to have the responsibility to carry the body for two hours up struggling mountains before you are able to bury her?!!! Somehow, God provides them with the strength and endurance at a time like this to do what they have to do. Please pray for this family and many of the others that suffer so severely with the loss of their family members and the many other things they have to endure.

Sunday Morning Blog

GOD IS SO GOOD!!!! When you think He has done it all, something else happens. Most people would get very upset if you were awaken on Sunday morning with the rattling of the gate at 4:00 a.m. but today it was a blessing! Before we even could open our eyes a big truck came in the gate loaded with a green kawasaki mule!!! Now for some of you would say well that's not so much but here at Lifeline it is AWESOMELY BIG!!!!! Since the earthquake we have had a red mule in which we have hauled sand, rock, and cement to build houses and food to people in the most remote areas which we would have never been able to have helped because of this special donated machine. We go and transport crippled people to church, and pick up people that are so sick that they can't walk and transport them to the clinic here at Lifeline. Without this mule we would have many times been helpless. The rough terrain many times is unpassable here with a regular vehicle. The Lord must have knew how vital it has been and now we have a second one. There is not words to say how very grateful we are to the special person that donated these vehicles for Lifelines use to help the people here in Haiti. May God's blessings be upon on you!!!