What an amazing day!! We split our group in two as we went to Gertrude's Orphange and the home for the sick and dying babies. As we walked into the home for sick and dying babies you could hear the beautiful little babies crying to be picked up. There were parents in the courtyard as it was visiting hours for them and they all sat in the very hot sun as they cared for their little ones. Each one of us immediately had babies in our arms and when you picked the children up that would wrap both hands around your neck. Nick B. and Johnny both had the older kids just grabbing all over them and asking them to hold them. There were so excited when they picked them up seeing the look on their faces was amazing! For me watching these teenage boys create loud laughs out of these children as they held them and played with them was awesome. Once you picked them up, they did not want to be put back in their cribs as you can imagine. Many of these babies are 1 or 2 years old, yet many can sit unsupported or stand or walk at all. They are lined in cribs while the people who work there and the nuns care for them. There was at least 3 rooms full of babies that I saw and they were just the most beautiful and wonderful children it was an amazing experience to be able to hold and feel the love they gave to us. It felt like an amazing honor to be there and to be able to do that.
When the visiting hours ended for the parents they handed their babies to us to hold. You could see the hurt in their faces as they had to leave and they did not want to put them back in the cribs but give to us instead. It is hard to see and believe the poverty and sickness in Haiti
What an amazing group of people I am with, watching them all is so inspiring and amazing and the first two days of this trip have been everything I hoped it would be.
Gertrudes was equally amazing. These care givers have almost nothing to care for these children with very special needs and the people who do this day in and out are to be admired and cherished for the work they do.
It is tough to see the poverty and dispair here, people everywhere with hardly any standing buildings that I have seen of any substance. It is mostly broken down cement walls and some not many tent cities. I am really looking forward to delivering the water tomorrow and what the rest of the week will bring.
Posted by Susie Kelleher
When the visiting hours ended for the parents they handed their babies to us to hold. You could see the hurt in their faces as they had to leave and they did not want to put them back in the cribs but give to us instead. It is hard to see and believe the poverty and sickness in Haiti
What an amazing group of people I am with, watching them all is so inspiring and amazing and the first two days of this trip have been everything I hoped it would be.
Gertrudes was equally amazing. These care givers have almost nothing to care for these children with very special needs and the people who do this day in and out are to be admired and cherished for the work they do.
It is tough to see the poverty and dispair here, people everywhere with hardly any standing buildings that I have seen of any substance. It is mostly broken down cement walls and some not many tent cities. I am really looking forward to delivering the water tomorrow and what the rest of the week will bring.
Posted by Susie Kelleher
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