The planting has started! Happy May 1st!

The rainy season had started here in our area and the so the mountains are open for planting! We have been growing vetiver in the clinic yard for a year now.  About every 3 months we can plant what has grown and replant new starts. Vetiver grass is amazing. The

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Gathering Seeds

On Saturday, the community group went searching for seeds and we found lots!  These will be planted in sacks in our nursery and the seedlings replanted on the barren mountain sides surrounding Cazale.  During the drought/dry season, the tree sheds all it’s leaves.  When the rains come again, the leaves

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For such a time as this…

“I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service.” 1 Timothy 1:12 On May 25th of 2010 I stepped foot onto a little island that I thought would simply be a place for me to help and be

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Cleaning the River

HAPPY SATURDAY! (Anna here)  I love that my first day here was Saturday because I got to see the community group in action right in front of RHFH and weighed all the kids.  Crazy how much kids grow in 4 months!! See these hardworking people? Aren’t they awesome! The community

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Educational material in Creole

We have a satellite system for our Internet in Haiti. We cannot upload and download a lot of information per month.  This limits us a bit on what we can do in Haiti.  In December we had a team from CA that set up a projector under the clinic shelter.  We

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Gifts put to use

We got a donation of materials from OXFAM this past week.  2 wheelbarrows and 100 small buckets. We quickly put them to work…. We replanted our mahogany trees. left to right – flamboyant, mahogany in the front, acasia and sed in the back (don’t know english names, sorry), and lots

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