How it Started
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In the spring of 2014, Pastor Joassaint, the Pastor of Williamson heard of some abandoned children in the hills who's Father had recently died in a land slide and no Mother to care for them. With the help of a Grace Lutheran mission team a place was made for the brother and sister in a room was attached to the school. The Pastor brought the children Williamson with the help of a caretaker they were given shelter, food, clothes, love, and a safe place to live.
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With the compassion of Grace members these children were sponsored for school and financial assistance was found to aid in caring for the children.
Some Grace members who were there to greet the children when they came to the village for the first time were able to go back to Haiti just a year later and were amazed at the difference in these children. When they first met them they were malnourished, sad, scared and detached. They children they saw just a year later were easy to laugh and smile and they had a sparkle in their eyes that did not exist the first time they met them. |
Now There are Eight
Eight beautiful children have now been brought together to create their own family.
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Housing
When the first two children were brought down to the village, a room was found for them to use inside the Williamson school. A caretaker was also hired so the children had an adult to care for them. The room was cleaned out, painted and carpeted, giving the caretaker and the children a clean and safe place to live. Since the room was in with the school the caretaker and children had access to a restroom and a well for water. Their room is also in a secured location, as the school has a fence that goes around the perimeter and can be locked.
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Two years later we now have 8 abandoned children plus a caretaker that need a place to live. And the children are getting older and bigger, as children do. They have outgrown their little room.
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Several months after the children were in the village a team from Grace went back to Haiti and built bunk beds for the children.
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This is the first bed that these children had ever had. It was amazing to see their joy.
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The children have now moved in with Pastor Joassaint and his family. This does give the kids a bigger bedroom in a safe environment. The challenge is now there are 15 people living in a two bedroom house.
Land adjoining to Pastor Joassait's house has been purchased and house plans have been drawn up. A team going to Haiti in January 2017 will review and finalize plans with the Pastor. We are hoping to raise $18,000 to build the house for the abandoned children and their care taker. |