René en Marianne Lako

Haiti Sunday August 29, 2010

http://www.humedica.org/index_eng.html

check it out, this is the english website from the organisation we work with in Haiti. If you scroll down you will be able to find information regarding the family sponsorship program and I soon will write a story about it.

August 21, 2010 Zimba no more

I realized I totally forgot to tell you that our cute little puppy has died. Rene and I were gone on a short break and received a message that Zimba was killed while one of our drivers parked the car in the drive -way of our teamhouse. He was a cute little dog and we are sad he is no more.

Food Distribution August 9-15, 2010

This week I found myself, together with my assistant and translator, Jacqueson; as well as the Social Worker from the hospital we work with, getting involved with every family in the FSP (Family Sponsorship Program) as we had a food distribution. It was great meeting them all again, in total we have 68 families with a total of 348 people in the program registered and more on the waiting list. Their stories and living situations still sad and with the rains coming down each night, sleeping under a tarp or a tent is not ideal. Yet to see them and share with them why we are doing what we are doing was great.

Our space in the teamhouse July 10,2010

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Moment of weakness - June 29, 2010

Or was it a heatstroke??? But he is cute!!!

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June 22, 2010 Kouman ou ye?

thumb_st_mark_beach thumb_haiti_sun_set Moi bien, mėsi! (Creole for How are you? Fine thank you!) We spent a wonderful weekend away from Port au Prince. Some donors from Europe came to check out the progress of the renovation of a project in St. Mark and we went with them, after visiting the site we were also taken around and saw some tent cities. St Mark did not suffer the earthquake like PaP and the people in the tents are refugees from the capitol...

Finally a newsletter June 2010

In the midst of moving offices and living quarters we managed to write a newsletter. We hope you enjoy it, We also hope you are doing well and that you will have a great summer (sorry for our friends down below …. We hope you have a great winter). Love to hear back from you. news_may-2010-128

Haiti a country we call "home" June 3, 2010

Haiti a mostly mountainous country with a tropical climate, Haiti's location, history and culture - once made it a potential tourist hot spot, but instability and violence, especially since the 1980s, have severely dented that prospect. Haiti became the world's first black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state when it threw off French colonial control and slavery in a series of wars in the early 19th century. On various occasions, Haiti has experienced political violence throughout its history However, decades of poverty, environmental degradation, violence, instability and dictatorship have left it as the poorest nation in the Americas. Haiti ranking 150th out of 192 countries on the Human Development Index, is the poorest country in the Americas