Education

Dispelling Fear, Hiking to Houses, and Quake Anniversary

The past two days were very successful! It's been reassuring to know that what we planned, based on everything we'd been reading online and in the kolera advisories.

Projects At Platon

Up at dawn after sleeping well in the school building at Platon.
The trail downhill is very busy with people walking to market with heavy loads on their head and they aren't wearing "trail runner shoes", believe me! We also see flocks of sheep and a large oxen being led down every once in a while.
Coffee and granola bars for breakfast then Paul gathered his materials for the Rain on the Roof project. They were supposed to leave at 7:30 but will prob actually closer to 8:30.

Community Education About Kolera

Yesterday we had meetings at our house after church and worked on our computers while the "Sunday" electricity was working. Downtown Cayes was crowded with hundreds of people for Msr. Aleandre's funeral. The business community is quite concerned about insecurity in Cayes now. It was an early night since we'd all gotten up to go to 6 AM service at AUC. We have no idea why they changed the time but there weren't a lot of people on time!!

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Productive Day

We stayed up way past midnight talking with Amoce and Jasmin, last night. With no elec it was easy to just keep sitting in the dark.

Today we still have no 'kouran' but we're used to that by now. Thank goodness for solar battery chargers.

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A brief narrative of the flooding

I had the chance to catch Marie online today and she told me about the extent of the flooding.  She said the tiny trickle by her house was a raging torrent as was the rocky roadbed on the other side.  She began to put the things in the house into the showers and piled things up, but the water rushed into her house and rose to knee height in less than 30 minutes.   Marie said that the water began rushing by her house so fast that it sucked the water OUT of her house!

School & scholarships for children

Marcia told us that there were many children of mother's in the Mother's Club who are not able to attend school. She estimated about 20 children in St. Elen and 90 in Camp Perren. While Witchner was here we began talking about how Mustard Seed could help provide scholarships for some of those children to attend school. One of our thoughts is that the families should be expected to contribute something toward the cost, whether it be contributing in the community or bartering farm products or some other meaningful contribution.
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