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Tonight I am up later than usual because, simply I can not sleep. We had a medical emergency that has not gone well, in fact that is what is keeping me awake. I finally decided to get up and write a blog about it. Basically, we, (mostly Denise) have been working with a women in our community for probably six months. Denise has been transporting her to various hospitals, paying for expenses, etc. It has finally been determined she probably has cancer. However to be sure we need a biopsy done. Over the last several days Denise has contacted numerous […]

This food is for the children of Atrwel

We arrived safely in Garcin around 7:30 Monday night. We would have been earlier, but we stayed until the last flight of the day from Miami arrived at the airport. We were rewarded with the three of four missing pieces of checked luggage. Hopefully the last pieces will still show up. When we arrived at our apartment we were pleased that the batteries were charged up so that we had lights. Our water tanks were dry, I think that the water was used up watering the container gardens on our roof. Tuesday morning Johnny and I installed the solar panels

Merry Christmas, Here is a link to our: Advent 2015 Newsletter May your Christmas be merry, and your New Year filled with the peace of the Christ child. Bob and Denise   [pdfviewer width=\”750px\” height=\”825px\” beta=\”true/false\”]https://partnerinhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Advent_2015_Newsletter.pdf[/pdfviewer]

Hello Cookeville, We invite all of our Cookeville friends and family to our Advent sale just in time for your Christmas shopping needs. We will be at St. Thomas Church after Mass Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Remember your purchase of unique Haitian art is the gift that gives three times. Once to your gift recipient, once to the Haitian artist and once to the people of Haiti that The Haiti Project serves. We have tin art, baskets, sculpture, paintings, jewlery, coffee, vanilla and HOMEMADE DARK CHOCOLATE,from cocoa grown at The Fr. Jim Agriculture Center!!

Hello Huntsville, Just a quick note to all of our friends in Huntsville Alabama.  We are having an Advent sale featuring Haitian art after mass this morning, December 6th, at St Joseph\’s Catholic Church, 2300 Beasley Ave NW, Huntsville, AL 35816. Many new and wonderful pieces to choose from just in time for your Christmas giving. The gift that give three times, once to that someone special, second to the artist, and third to the community of Riviere Mancelle that benifits from the services of the Haiti Porject.

We want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of our Haiti Project partners on this “Giving Tuesday”. God Bless you all, Bob, Denise and all of the people who are touched by your generosity.

Thanksgiving, I am thankful to be an American. In the United States I not only live in a country of abundance, I live in a country of excess. I am thankful that I am thankful. I am thankful I am learning not to complain. I am thankful I have choices. I choose to leave my comfortable abundant life for extended periods of time, to live where there is not enough to go around. I choose to live with the poorest of the poor. I choose to live where there are hungry children outside of my door, day and night. Children

November 08, 2015 We just returned home from bringing the medical team back to PAP, it was a sad good bye. A team of five people four nurses and a pharmacy helper came from Detroit area, and two Haitian Americans arrived from Delray Beach Florida to interpret. Johnny and Anita were also working as interrupters and myself.  The team arrived last Friday, I drove the team to Kalabot on Saturday and shortly after we arrived the clinic opened. Patients were seen on Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon, all day Monday and Tuesday morning with a total of 290 people seen. On

Choices   Limits, Boundaries, borders, fences, walls, guardrails. Freedom, servitude, slavery, bondage. Arrogance, humility. Freewill.   Jesus loves the little children of the world, red, yellow, black and white, Jesus loves the little children of the world. Jesus loves me. NO, ME! Choices.   A child is ill, very ill. Few choices. Tradition, based on superstition and fear. A new option, western medical team. The nurse, unable to deal with the life and death crises in the remote mountains, arranges to transport the child to modern hospital. Offer is made, mother agrees and leaves to pack for journey, does not