We are wondering if this year we might get a short (week or two) break from the rain, as happens sometimes in July. We hope so, but weather predictions are otherwise. Actually the prediction is for a very wet year with lots of hurricanes. Hopefully this is not accurate as Haiti cannot handle more problems.
The projects that have been ongoing since the earthquake are almost 100% finished. The Kid’s Home needs the kitchen sink finished and water hooked up only. The steps and cement work outside the front of their house has been finished. The repairs to the cement wall enclosure of the compound has been completed. The removal of the cement roof at the top of the main house has been done and the cutting and removal of the rebar is almost finished. The outer walls on the second level of this house will be started soon. Things that had been in storage in various areas of the compound has been moved into the new storage rooms under the water tower building. Oh happy day!
The construction of the Boy’s Home is the next big project. We will soon be starting to dig so the foundation for this can get underway.
Our kids are all doing well. They are all very happy about the end of school for awhile. No one, however, is happier about that than I am. One less demand and stress for a short time. Ti Luc goes flat out all day long walking and playing . When the fatigue hits it hits. I was trying to feed him and get him into his pyjamas one evening at 6:00 p.m. I stepped out the back door to turn on water pump and returned two minutes later to find him in a deep sleep. He went to bed as was and did not awake until 7:00 a.m. I could not resist the photo.
The school students and parents returned to our school on Friday so students could receive their report cards for the year. In light of the earthquake and the following months, when neither students or teachers could properly focus on schooling, all of Haiti has been expecting a drop in the number of students who pass. Our school did fairly well considering. I am enclosing a couple of photos of students (both are in the sponsoring program) receiving a gift for placing first in their grades.
All the work that HATS has done and is doing is “ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN.”
~Karen
