Easter Blessings Everyone.
How time flies when one is having fun! Or so the expression goes. Time seems to pass quickly no matter what, but in Haiti I never seem to see in advance that a special event or celebration is coming until it is upon us. Christmas, Easter and other special events seem to appear without warning. Being busy non stop, hot sunny weather 100% of the time, no season change other than wet to dry, and no North American advertising could account for my often not being aware.
Today is Good Friday. I realized late Wednesday that Easter was this weekend, when both people who work in my house asked for Thursday off. That would give them a four day weekend. Yikes. Easter!! Can’t be!
Haitians celebrate Good Friday with a special meal prepared with fish. Today all the kids and I were invited to Luckner and Baby’s house to visit and to eat a Good Friday meal with them. The kids were thrilled to leave the compound and to play and eat at Poppa Luckner’s. Doing this enabled Antoinette to get a break and to enjoy Good Friday afternoon with her family at home. As I write this all the children are watching a video here at my house. Guess now I had better start thinking about something special to do for Easter Sunday.
Good Friday meal at Luckner’s house
Hungry Judel eating his Good Friday meal
Baby and Luckner feeding Ti Luc
Even though it is Good Friday work continued on the compound today. They wanted to get as much as possible done on the Water Tower so Michelet could prepare all the rebar in preparation for pouring the roof. Too, they continued with work on the Urinal project at the school. One small but important job was done, that of tying the rope of the tire swing again. It had come undone and so the children could not use it. Big catastrophe for them. This morning some of the Grade Seven students arrived to start a clean up job on the empty property behind the school. They desperately want to see it enclosed so they can enjoy soccer games there. When the Water Tower and Urinal projects are finished, water tanks are relocated to the new building, and we are again sleeping inside, then we will be starting the foundation for the new children’s home.
Work continues on the water tower
Retying the swing for the kids
Judel and Dieunel happy to be swinging again
Grade 7 boys cleaning up the land for soccer
Construction on the urinal on the school property
Never a dull moment at HATS. Never a quiet minute at HATS. But lots to show for all the work by Haitian and by Blan alike. Both groups work well together and separately. HATS is reaping the benefits of your generosity to help get things up and running again. Thank you for all the support -, financial, prayer, encouragement and for coming personally.
May God bless you all as we celebrate the death and resurection of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour.
~Karen
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