It's Saturday and we are home taking a break after a morning at Mother Theresa's, this is a Catholic orphanage where they take in orphaned and really sick babies! These Haitian kids are so beautiful....sick or well, there are probably about 100 cribs all together and the lower level houses the sickest ones. What is amazing is how they feed themselves real food like rice and beans at a very early age. One little guy I held was another National Geographic picture he was five years old and had been in the orphanage since December 12 he was really skinny, his little bones stuck out and he looked like the poster boy for a malnourished kid. The nuns are amazing! And we met a lot of folks from the Twin Cities today, there is a Catholic Church that has adopted 18 kids this trip! One couple left with their new little girl while we there to go home to Bayport! God has moved the church to answer the cries of Haiti.
We are being treated to an authentic Haitian meal of Creole or Kreyle tonight and it smells amazing in here. Tomorrow we will go back to Gertrudes and do fluorides on the kids, visit the mountains, and metal market which is where they sell their metal products.
More tomorrow,
Mare
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