Day 4 Travel and visiting

Today we went to Archaie - the area where one team member has been involved and where our church raised money to build their school . 

 

We met the pastor and toured the half built church and the Christian school. 

 

The children swarmed around us asking us to take their picture ! It was a mob scene ! 

 

One little girl named Juliette kept following us around shyly smiling at us and grabbing our arms. 

 

We had snack and lunch with the pastor across the street at his house. we also met with Alix the Three Angels school director, the Archaie school director, the school church committee and pastor, and discussed ways to improve their school. Since the Three Angels school is so successful, the director, Alix, will help Wilson the director at Archaie work on improving their school. 

 

We saw the shore which is lined with debris and pigs and very skinny sheep/ goats? 

 

We had a very long drive back due to traffic and then went to  Child Hope, which is an agency that has a orphanage, school, feeding program for poor neighboring kids, and a transition program that teaches job and life skills to teenagers like making jewelry, printing t shirts, weaving, sewing, pottery, etc.

 

We got to help feed the kids in the feeding program. 

 

One little girl was extremely malnourished and was hand fed a bowl and rice mixture. I saw her eat another plateful and was glad for that. 

 

The little girl and her brother walked some of the way with us outside as we made our way over to the Apparent Project which helps people make crafts jewelry etc and sell them to Americans and here too! 

 

They had an amazing store and we wished we brought some money! 

We had a very bumpy eventful ride home having to keep turning around and finding another street due to road construction and traffic ! It's crazy scary driving here!

 

We finally made it home to the guesthouse and had dinner and got to relax - we had breadfruit sausage and cornbread

 

 

Below is a picture of a book I bought about an orphan's experience in Haiti. I can't wait to share it with some of you when I get home !