This album contains images from mission trip by Tom Apsey and Jack Miller during the second week of June 2010, sponsored by Simpsonwood United Methodist Church (SUMC). The objective of the trip was to oversee the application of SUMC Haiti relief funds for an orphanage expansion needed to accommodate additional children after the quake and to assess opportunities for future mission work.
Of everything we saw, Tom and I felt the most urgent need is to find a way to provide food to malnourished children of La Saline. We were told that the people are so poor that they cannot afford to feed their children who become …
The Hatian Government granted Pastor Rigaud land adjacent to the community of La Saline to try and improve the living conditions of the people. Pastor Rigaud showed Tom and me this community north of Port-au-Prince which he belie…
Before the earthquake, the facility housed about 40 orphans. Now it has 60, which is putting a strain on the capacity. Our construction work was for an expansion which will help ease the strain on the facility. All of his kids …
Pastor Rigaud's school has an estimated 300 - 400 students in attendance. Pastor Rigaud believes (and we agree) that education is the only path out of poverty for the Haitian people.
Pastor Rigaud's clinic sees 50 patients per day.
Pastor Rigaud's main church can seat about 4000 people. The church in La Saline is a set of tarps about one block from where the "mud pies" are baked and can seat a few hundred.
One day, we made a make-shift studio out of a bedsheet and some PVC pipe and we took photos of most of the kids in the orphanage. Talk about chaos. But it all worked out. The kids (and adults) really enjoyed the prints that we …
A few videos here. I plan to post more...