Driving down the mountain from Petionville to our home on Delmas 75, you often see dump trucks loaded down with natural limestone mined from the mountains. Here, I was driving behind one of these dump trucks and noticed that the left set of dual wheels wobbled quite a bit. On a closer look, I could see that the right set of wheels were not much better. The inner wheel of the right set of dual tires was totally worn down to the bare inner support. I had my camera with me so could take this video. Can you imagine what the brakes are like?!!! This is the way many of the trucks travel up and down the mountain here in Port-au-Prince. Please pray for the safety of the people in the way of these trucks.

This is another view of the 'ravine' where I volunteer every Tuesday morning. Hundreds of families live on both sides of the ravine in small block houses, some of the size of our bedroom. This is where a family of eight or ten might live. On Tuesday mornings, I walk up one side of the ravine and down the other with a registered nurse from Jacksonville Florida. We see and treat only children. The adults ALWAYS have something wrong so we send them to a nearby free clinic. In this way we focus on the really sick children and not on the adults who may only want some tylenol for a future ailement.

Here you can see Doctor Karen from the USA examining a child that the mother has said was sick. Sometimes work teams come from the USA to help at Christian Light Ministries. CLM is run by Sherri Fausey and has a school for many of the children in the ravine. She also has a feeding program for malnourished very young children as well as a Little Angels program. The Little Angels program is for pre school children that are in need of a meal for the day. Sherri Fausey runs all of these programs. She is also instrumental in the weekly medical clinics on Tuesday mornings.

Here you can see many of the mothers and fathers lined up to see a nurse or a doctor. We see between 30 and 50 sick children every week. After being diagnosed, these children are prescribed medicine or offered advice how to deal with the problem. After that, twice a day a worker goes to the ravine and gives the children their medicine. It is not wise to give a weeks supply to the mother. The child may never receive the medicine. It may be sold for food for the whole family. Sad, isn't it.

This past Friday, we were invited to a private library here in Petionville, about 10 minutes drive from the school. There they have quite a number of books and for $40 a year you can join. Here you can see Steve Hersey, the director of Quisqueya Christian School posing with his home made bread and bagels. Every few weeks, a member takes turns to supply the group with some special goodies and beverages. We really enjoyed meeting new people from the Canadian and US Embassies. It is a chance to meet more 'blancs' in Haiti. We will probably join at the beginning of the next school year.

The daily activities seem to have returned to normal, although the people are still anxious in the selection of a new prime minister. The nations have responded with gifts of food, yet as the saying goes - give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a life time.

The activities at school returned to normal after last Monday. On Tuesday all of the students were back to school. This past week was poetry week in the elementary school and at the assembly on Friday, there was a good representation of parents. On Saturday we had our Family Sports Day and the turn out was terrific. More than we expected. About 300 strong! Moms and dads with their children. The major game was soccer and the meal was supplied by the Parent Action Committee of which I am part. The parents were asked to bring a salad or covered dish or dessert for their admission. It was a super day. Thank You Lord for the fun and fellowship and food and your Sonshine.

We are doing good. The activities on the streets seem almost the way they were as before the demonstrations. These photos give but a glimpse of the daily activities and the contrasts in Haiti. Thank You Lord for the rains. See the greening of the school's soccer field?

Where do they come from? And all of a sudden, there were none. The random acts of destruuction do not aid thepeople's cause. The school will be closed for the rest of this week. Since the tap taps are not driving, the local people are unable to get to their work places. Very few vehicles are on the road.

This afternoon, April 9, many demonstrators came down the main road in front of the school where our apartment is. Over the concrete wall we could see them gathering around the intersection and not too much later they had roadblocks of burning tires and a large trash bin. At this time the fires are out and it is much calmer.

These sights and signs of Haiti speak for themselves.