We jodi men sonje demen
See today, but remember tomorrow … Creole proverb
GANTHIER, Haiti — Kindergarten students at the Village of Hope School marched happily into the schoolyard to begin their day serenading me and 10 others on the volunteer team from Northern Virginia by raising the Haitian flag and singing the island’s national anthem. The future of Haiti will be resting on the shoulders of these little ones someday.
Afterward, several members of the mission team visited with sponsored children. At noon on that last Thursday of February, older students joined the group for a lunch of rice and beans with fish sauce in the cafeteria.
After three days in Haiti, our team still had much work to do to get the health center ready for medical equipment. Some folks say there are only two seasons in Haiti — hot and hotter. Fortunately, the rainy season had not begun, so we were lucky only to have hot. Evenings were in the 70s but highs in the afternoon hit 95 degrees.
Returning to Hope House in the evenings brought some respite, but we were really looking forward to reconnecting with some orphans we first met in 2009.
The two visits re-energized us in the afternoons.
