Haiti Orphanage

Yahve-Jire Orphanage (God Will Provide)

The work with Yahve-Jire Orphanage is coordinated by Kathy Johnson.  Our congregation has welcomed  Chedlin Justival the founder of the orphanage and we have given financial aid to the children through our Endowment Fund and by furnishing medical supplies, tuition, uniforms, and water for the orphanage through our Alternative Gift Fair. We also assisted in paying the tuition for one of the founders who attended Covenant College in Georgia and who is now in the doctoral program at the School of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. We are partnering with The Yahve-Jire Children’s Foundation, Discovery Presbyterian Church,  The Bible Chapel in Pittsburgh PA and Cathi Lesher with Worship 24/7 in South Carolina to share our love and ministry with these  children so that they, too, will know the love of Christ.

(From Chedlin 8/28/2011)

Dear friends,
God bless you in the name of Jesus, Last Friday we organised a picnic at the new place. We had the opourtunity to plant 100 pines trees all around the fence. We also planted 10 coconut palms, 6 citrus 6 oranges and 1 sablier. every child planted a tree and they were sa happy and proud. We will continue to bring the kids on site in order to have them participate in the landscaping, to clean and to learn about the projects we want to realize for people of the area.   Thanks so very much for the beautiful blessing you are to our lifes.  God bless

This is the new orphanage the first time the children have come to visit.  The Haiti Mission Team helped to put in the gravel walkway.  In the distance you can see the new water bottles on top of the water tower we helped to erect.  It is progressing so very well.

 

 God bless you friends Thanks so much for your prayers, we are okay where we are by the grace of God, the children are okay, they said hello and they sent their love.  All the school are closed because of all the demonstrations in the streets. The children living in the tent cities are confronting with hunger and thirst because the situation of insecurity keep the supports from getting to them. So we thank God and our friends who provided a home for the Yahve-jire children to stay with every thing they need. Please continue to pray for us. Chedlin Justinvil (Thank you note from Chedlin-December 2010 during period of unrest following elections)

 

Winsky Otilus, Maignant and Zikansley Sima pray before lunch at the Yahre-Jire Foundation orphanage in Tabarre, Haiti.  Western Boulevard is helping this orphanage.   We were in the news! There was an outstanding article from The News and Observer, May 7, 2010 about the Yahve-Jire Children’s Orphanage in Haiti.      
These are pictures of the children in Haiti.  They are very traumatized from the earthquake and will not go on the 2nd floor of the house, which is the school. So they have set up school outside for now.Haiti_school1c Haiti_school2c By December 2010 (almost a year after the earthquake), the children are willing to study in their regular classroom. Haiti_child_pray

 This is a picture of the Orphanage before the earthquake- January 12, 2010.  The building sustained damage but did not collapse. sideof orphanage This is a picture of the building adjoining the Haiti Orphanage that collapsed as a result of the earthquake. earthquake

 

This is a picture of the dump truck for the Orphanage that two of our partners: Cathi Lesher at Worship 24/7 and Rev. Gary Myers (Retired, Kansas City) got for the cement block factory.  The work at the factory gives jobs to Christian Haitians. 

We leave our handprints on the front step of the neworphanage, like the people of Haiti have left their handprints in our hearts.

 

 

 

 

Haiti Mission Team Returns (June, 2011)       We are home, but our hearts are still in Haiti.  We had an amazing trip to Haiti and have such a sense of accomplishment.  Our guesthouse accommodations were par excellent even though Kathy and Ed had to change rooms 3 times.  Devotions around the pool each evening was an added bonus.  The children at Yahve Jire Orphanage are well and happy and thriving.  The highlight of our trip was getting to spend time coloring, putting together puzzles, playing soccer, jumping rope, playing “rock, paper, sissors”, thumb wrestling, and hanging out with the kids.  At the orphanage under construction site, we were able to landscape the new dormitories by putting in a walkway around the domes, we built a swale to help with the water runoff to Ed’s specifications, the ladies put in a 60’ by 60’ parking lot, the men raised a 30’ water tower, we picked up trash and construction debris, and we all put in plant beds and planted coconut palm trees and Australian pines.  On the last day we were blessed with a request from Chedlin, the director, to leave our handprint in the front steps of the new orphanage. Pictures and slides will be shown at WNL September 14th.  The need is still great.  We presently send a check for $1,000/month to buy food and medical care for the children.  We need to send at least $2,000 per month just for food.  This does not include salary for the staff or salary for the teachers.  Two more of the children, Wilkey and Didley, have passed their government exams and are ready for high school. Daphnee passed her first year studies in High School that would have not been possible without the help of a kind donation by one of our congregation. They cannot go to high school next year unless we can help with their tuition costs.  It is $1800 per year for one child; this includes their books, uniform, one meal/day, tap tap (taxi) fare and their education.  The younger children are educated at home and we are happy to report that they all passed their end of year testing.  The Bible Chapel in Pittsburgh, PA has done wonderful fundraising and has supplied all of the construction costs thus far.  We were able to leave funds with Chedlin to add to the money the children of WBPC raised for a well to purchase the water pump needed for the new orphanage!  We all hope you will consider “adopting” the children and staff at Yahve Jire by making a pledge to contribute monthly to the Haiti fund.  We will have pledge cards at WNL in September. Above all, thank you WBPC for your love, your support and your prayers.  With God’s continued blessing of our mission work in Haiti we will bring hope to these children that all things are possible. 

Chedin has started operating a cement block factory to be used in the rebuilding of Haiti and to make money to use  in operating the Orphanage. A lot of work has occurred since the earthquake in January 2010.              

  This is a picture of the yard and playground of the Orphanage before the earthquake. playground This is a picture of the play area of the orphanage and the collapsed building adjoining the orphanage after the earthquake.

 The 2011 Haiti Mission Team at the Caribe in Petionville.  We had a wonderful dinner, but it didn’t compare to Lily’s national rice and turkey at Mon chez moi guesthouse.

 

 

 And now!  Team Haiti returns.  Mission Trip planned for June 18-26, 2012.  We have 11 wonderful disciples getting ready to venture out again.  We are excited about the prospects of seeing the kids in the new Yahve Jire Homeland.  High probability of lots of laughter, music, sewing, arts, and of course hard work as we lend our hand to making this a wonderful home for the children and staff of Yahve Jire.