Today one of the greatest miracles of this trip occurred. We arrived at the orphanage around 10 am to meet with the Chief of the Canadian Navy to discuss the building of the shelters which they have been doing with us there.  As we pulled onto the road leading to the orphanage, we saw a large bulldozer and dump truck moving concrete rubble. I said, “It appears that the army is expanding their base.”  As we got closer we soon saw that they were not expanding their base but actually in the process of removing ALL the rubble from the totally destroyed orphanage, school and church, our orphanage. I was literally speechless.

I met  a captain from the Canadian Army who is in charge of all heavy equipment for road reconstruction etc earlier this week asking if they would remove the rubble from the orphanage so that we could begin the rebuilding of the facilities when we were able to raise the money. I also said that it would have a tremendous psychological boost for the entire community to see actual progress towards rebuilding begin and that it would also begin to restore hope for their futures. 

The captain told me that she would speak to her superiors but they were in the middle of clearing roads etc and the soonest they could do something would be in 3 weeks. Well, that was a fast 3 weeks! The Naval Chief set us up for a huge surprise. They loved our concept about beginning something that could boost peoples hope so decided to completely clear the rubble immediately.

Victory World Church sent 2 additional team members which were a big help.

Today we delivered

·        MRE's 3080

·        Feeds 30,800 people for I day

·        Gallons of water 6,048

·        6 truck loads

Today was our largest day of deliveries even though we had 4 out of 6 of our vehicles break down!

Thank you for giving us the privilege of a lifetime serving the Haitian people who have lost so much!

Bless you 

Pat