The Be Like Brit organization, which is working in Haiti under the umbrella of MOHI, started digging the footings for their orphanage project this week after laying out the building over the weekend. It’s always great to see people working, knowing that their children will be eating better for the duration. At least 66 children will one day call this beautiful, B-shaped building, home.

Construction on the Forward in Health medical clinic, near les Cayes, has started up again. Woohoo!!! Construction had halted after the earthquake last year, as resources and energies were focused on relief efforts. Forward in Health had a surgical team in Haiti a week after the quake struck and a second one shortly after that. They have sent teams in since then, one of them was a special trip to repair a leg fracture for Andre. He and his wife’s twins were born while they were living at the Mission of Hope, having lost their home in the quake. Andre is walking once again, thanks to FIH going the extra mile for their patient.

I’m all excited about Drex and Jo “moving in.” 🙂 Drex and Jo work with the Hands and Feet Project and directed their orphange in Jacmel for several (maybe 5?) years. Papa Drex and Mama Jo are truly some of the most kind hearted people I know. They will be spending the next 6 months or so overseeing construction of the new Hands and Feet orphanage in Icondo, Grand-Goâve. The 31 kids that we’ve been caring for over the past 2 years will have a beautiful new home up there.

After spending the better part of the past 25 years working in Haiti, it almost goes without saying that Drex knows how to do almost everything! I wouldn’t call him a handyman, but rather a MASTER handyman! He oversaw all of the construction in Jacmel and they have a very beautiful campus there now.

For me, I like that when I bring up any “Haitian” situation, Drex and Jo already understand most of the implications, without me having to explain anything. There is a camaraderie and understanding amongst us.

Together with Mission of Hope International, The Hands and Feet project, Forward in Health and Be Like Brit will bring many more jobs to this country now and in the future. I truly believe that change for the better is inevitable. The best is yet to come!!!