So I found out yesterday that 7 kids are now sick with Cholera at HCH.
The staff are burned out and need help. I dreamt about being overboard on a boat without a lifejacket - that must be what they feel like.
A Doctor and his team are heading down there tonight from Edmonton, and we will be rounding up some supplies today....I want to be on that plane.

Global Edmonton Interview - Oct.28, 2010

Enough

I feel a bit like I am vomiting. You know the kind where you are heaving and puking and in between the heaves, while you are bent over the toilet, unable to control it, you still say to yourself, like by some small miracle it will help stop the awfulness of it all "...enough.....enough..."

When is enough enough for Haiti?

Earthquake
-enough-
Cholera
-enough-
Hurricane
-enough-
Flooding
-enough-

Yesterday I got news that a small earthquake leveled a school.
-enough-

Today 2 babies from HCH are sick with Cholera....
-enough, enough, enough...

10,000 infected, 800 dead....2 boys who AREN'T safe at home

10,000 people are now infected with Cholera, 650 are dead. This is all happening right around the area of our orphanage.

Who in Canada is trying to help our future Canadians? There are a small handful of us left with orphaned children stuck in the thick sludge of crumbled and condemned buildings, swollen rivers and floods, a deadly waterborne illness, makeshift shelters that need to be evacuated, not enough medicine, no one to administer IV's and there they remain abandoned in a bureaucratic, political grey area, with a handful of Canadian families unable to create enough political pressure to even inspire a conversation between governments....



If you can help to provide Cholera medication for the 33 orphans at Haiti Children's Home, or if you are a nurse who is willing to go and stay at HCH to administer IV's please contact me or HCH: www.haitichildrenshome.com

From the mouths of babes

The other day at school I brought cake to Dee's class for her to share in celebration of her turning 4.

In the car on the way home she let me know that everyone loved the cake and they all said thank you to her for bringing it. I said "that was nice that they all loved it and said thank you! How did it make you feel?" she contemplated this for just a moment, and then muttered with a smile "it made me feel kind of hot and all wobbly when they said that to me"...

Could there possibly be a more innocent way to express that feeling of being appreciated (and possibly a bit embarrassed) at having done something nice for someone else? Straight out to the mouth of a 4 year old...there is definitely something to be said for having limited means and vocab to express yourself, and yet she was still able to do it so well!

So precious....

Fundraiser to Benefit Haiti Children's Home - Nov.20th

Haitian Children's Aid Society (www.hcas.ca) will be hosting a fundraiser to benefit Haiti Children's Home (www.haitichildrenshome.com)

They have purchased a piece of land to build a new orphanage compound on and will be sharing that information at the dinner. Lori West has just come back from spending 2 months at HCH and will be sharing as well.

Please RSVP for the fundraiser by Nov. 17.

Matt Day (www.mattday.ca), the entertainer for the Jasper Park Lodge, has been doing entertaining and speaking for many years will be the guest speaker for this event. He is funny and a good time - so come out and enjoy!

Do some Christmas shopping at the live and silent auction!

Bake sale tables will be there with regular and Christmas baking!

There will be some Haitian Nativity scenes and some other Haitian art works as well as vanilla.

Details:

where: Grace Point Church
720 - 62 Street SW
Edmonton, AB
T6X 0G3

Doors open 5:00pm
Supper @ 6:00 pm
Tickets: $30 adult
$10 5-10 yr
under 5 free.
childcare provided

If you can attend, please rsvp the names and ages of guests by Nov.17th at: inksoup@telus.net

Our twin boys

A picture speaks a thousand words. We are so privaledged to have access to pics of our baby boys. Just wanted to share some with you of them and their current living arrangements: