still speechless.....

Just a few sights from Haiti. I still can't put into words what I saw and experienced, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's 37,000 words.If you would like to see the other 675,000 words, let me know! :)
I personally don't even think the pictures tell the story, but it's a start!

street side market

mass grave. after the earthquake, they could not keep up with burial of all the dead bodies, so many of them were piled here and buried together

the view from my first Haitian bathroom break :)  proud to say this is the only outdoor pit-stop this pregnant mama had to make!

playing with the neighbor kids

this is the mission house we worked on while we were there. when complete, it will house offices, missionaries, and work teams. cpr-3.com

mixing concrete

this little girl was actually left with us at our work site by a woman desperate for help. we cared for her until we were able to find her home.

crushing moringa leaves to make them into powder. check out the moringa project

not sure what was in here... it looked like shredded chicken. all i know is it was infested with bugs and flies and they were filling their plates from it.

kids lining up to get some goodies from the white folks :)

homemade kite. the visit to this village was a tough one for me, but the ingenuity of this kid made my day.

beautiful faces of Haiti

genuine happiness

we had the opportunity to plant 1,000 moringa trees

from the top of cpr-3's mountain, looking over Bercy

walking to school. i was happy to learn that a large amount of Haitians do have the opportunity to go to school!

Haitian grocery shopping :)

tent city in port au prince - 2+ years after the earthquake

new shelters being built to replace the tent cities

people are still trying to live in these buildings that were rocked by the earthquake... and people are still dying because their shelters are not stable

this is their palace [our white house] still not repaired from the earthquake

see those little sheds called 'banks'? they are actually lotto stations - they can buy tickets for lottos in the U.S. apparently, even the poorest of the poor are living with the false hope that they will strike it big and all their problems will be solved.

hard to believe this is the same country we were serving in all week! the contrast between the devastation and the absolute beauty of God's creation was almost too hard to swallow.

our tap-tap

the gate to our hotel... almost always filled with kids from the neighboring village!

this canal (along with any other water source in the country) is multi-purpose: drinking, washing, bathing, restroom...  you name it, if it used water, this is where the water came from.

the village right outside our hotel gate