Darlens

Darlens has been with us for almost 9 months now.  He has slowly been gaining weight and improving.  We all love this little guy!  He was a favorite of Anna when she was here.

Love her so much!

Semi- Container

Dad and many volunteers have been working hard these past weeks getting a semi container ready to come to Haiti.  They have been collecting, sorting and packing supplies.  The trailer is ready to come to Haiti. 

Each semi container can hold 40 pallets.  These pallets contain items for the children in the RC, lots of medicine that we cannot purchase here in Haiti, Peanut butter, #10 cans of food, rice, hygiene items, bumbo seats, infant formula, toys and many many other things for the people here.

We are needing help with the shipping cost of this container.  It cost $10,000 to ship the container from Anderson, IN  and get it to us in Cazale.  So far we have raised $1925.oo  for this years container.  WE NEED YOUR HELP this year again to get these much-needed supplies to us.  You can sponsor a pallet for $250.00 or give for a part of a pallet.  questions???  Write us at info@realhopeforhaiti.org

School Sponsorship

We still need a sponsor for Kilito.

This is John.  His mother is a part of our community development group.  John is wanting to continue school this year.  His mother had twin girls this past year and does not have the funds to send John to school.  Would you be willing to help John?

The school sponsorship program is $250.00 per student per school year.  This covers the cost of uniforms, books, actual school fees, all school supplies, backpacks and other small school expenses.  You will get a profile of your child with a current picture and a few updates throughout the school year.  Please email me at licia@realhopeforhaiti.org for more information or if you are interested. You can donate through paypal on the upper right hand side of my blog or send donation to the address listed at the same place.  Please include a memo or note stating it is for school sponsorship.

UPDATE: Betor Vehicle Fund  Total raised including matching funds $10384.13  There is till $316.00 to be matched!

Real Hope for Haiti

now has a facebook fan page.  You can check us out here.  Lori, Casey and I will be updating from the facebook page about what is happening from day to day life with RHFH.  Lori and I will continue to update our face book page with our personal family things.  So come on over and be our fans!

School Sponsorship

 Here are four new children for school sponsorship.  All other listed in below post have sponsors.

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This is Kilito and his sister Myriam. They are from the village here in Cazale.  Their parents do not have the funds to send them to school this year.

This is Peterson and his sister Lourdia.  Several months ago we had a post up about Yolande and her kids.  You all responded and we have been helping her.  There was a lady that took her in for a while before RHFH began helping her.  The two children below are the kids of the lady that took Yolande in. 

The school sponsorship program is $250.00 per student per school year.  This covers the cost of uniforms, books, actual school fees, all school supplies, backpacks and other small school expenses.  You will get a profile of your child with a current picture and a few updates throughout the school year.  Please email me at licia@realhopeforhaiti.org for more information or if you are interested. You can donate through paypal on the upper right hand side of my blog or send donation to the address listed at the same place.  Please include a memo or note stating it is for school sponsorship.

UPDATE on the vehicle fund  The current balance raised with matching funds included is $10,284.13  WOW!  There is still $366.00 left to reach the goal of $2,500 for the matching funds.

Naomi

I posted about Naomi last week on the blog.  She started on the medika mamba program when she first arrived.  The medika mamba is working.  She is losing the “water weight” from her kwashiorkor.  This is what she looks like today.  She is just skin and bones.  The medika mamba will begin working more wonders in the coming weeks. She will begin to put on weight.  Her muscles will begin to get stronger, she will get well.  Medika Mamba works  for kids with kwashiorkor and malnutrition.  It really, really works!

 

6 weeks old!

UPDATE on Vehicle Fund:  currently there has been $584.00 donated towards the matching fund.  We have $1916.00 to finishing matching.  There has been three people that have pledged funds that will be coming in soon!  We are so excited!

New children admitted last week

The RC is beyond full right now.  We have well over 65 kids right now.  We are being pulled and stretched.  We are looking for extra space and trying the best we can to help as many children as we can.  We are in the life-saving business and it is hard sometimes.  There are two kids on IV’s today and many that are battling the fine line between life and death.  Lori had two people having seizures this AM, one child and a lady that was 6 months pregnant.  She is trying to get everything arranged to travel in Port tomorrow.  There is a surgical team that arrived here in Haiti this week.  They are working out of Double Harvest.  Dr. Jen H. let us know about this team and is  and doing the care after the surgeries at Heartline Hospital.  Lori has 21 patients that might be able to get surgery tomorrow.  Surgery that would be hard to get or impossible to have here in Haiti.  Each of these patients had to have medical testing before hand, each need a place to sleep tonight, each need a meal to eat, each need a kind touch, each need to know that we care and love them.  Lori will be traveling tomorrow with all the patients.  They would all appreciate your prayers.  We are trying so hard but many days do not feel we can get everything done that needs to be done. Pray for us. 

 ROSELANDE

is 12 years old

and weighs 50 pounds

she needs your prayers to recover.  She is currently receiving medika mamba in hopes that she will live.

 JAMESON

is 4 years old and weighs 26 pounds

He has kwashiorkor.  He had 4 other siblings but 3 have died. He is currently receiving Medika mamba is hopes that he will live.

Current total for the vehicle fund is $6,944.00 this includes the matching funds so far.

School children around the world

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia and Haiti are the two worst countries in which to be a school child at a time when $4.6 billion has been cut from education budgets worldwide, a new report released Monday said.

Chronic under-investment in education means that 69 million children are out of school around the world, said the report released by the Global Campaign for Education.  The report — “Back to School?” — said poor countries are “teetering on the brink of an education crisis.”  Of the five countries at the bottom of the list, four are in Africa, and three of those are in East Africa. The ranking rated Somalia, Eritrea, Haiti, Comoros and Ethiopia at the bottom five based on access to basic education, teacher-student ratio, and educational provisions for girls.

Even Kenya, considered successful compared to its East African neighbors, had to delay free education to 9.7 million children over the last year due to budgetary constraints, the report said.  The report was produced by Education International, Plan International, Oxfam, Save the Children and VSO.  World leaders meet at U.N. headquarters in New York this week to discuss the Millennium Development Goals.

One of goals was for universal primary education, and the world’s school children have seen much progress over the last decade. The U.N. says the number of children not in school has dropped from 106 million in 1999 to 69 million in 2008.

Sub-Saharan Africa has seen its classrooms fill over the last decade, though the continent still accounts for almost half of the total of unenrolled children. In 1999, 58 percent of African children were enrolled in primary school. By 2008 the figure was 76 percent.

The Global Campaign for Education is calling on leaders meeting this week to make education funding a priority so that the target of universal access to primary education is met by 2015.

“If education budgets are not protected from the ravages of the financial crisis all that progress could be jeopardized and generations will be condemned to poverty,” Gordon Brown, Britain’s former prime minister, said in the report.

“For years the international community has acknowledged the fundamental role education plays in development,” he said. “Today it must back these words with renewed action.”

The U.N. children’s agency said in new research ahead of the U.N. summit that providing services to the world’s poorest children is not only the right thing to do, but also more cost-effective than the current policy of mainly helping what it called the “less poor” in more-accessible areas.

UNICEF said its research shows that spending $1 million helping children age 5 and younger in the most remote and disadvantaged areas would prevent 60 percent more deaths then the current approach, what it called “a stunningly higher return on investment.”