As we wrap up the summer group season, it is fun to reflect on the many different teams who came to take part in the work JiHM is doing in Haiti. We had teams from Ohio, Texas, Minnesota, Indiana, and California, totaling 63 people.
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A Day To Celebrate
On Saturday, July 2, six of the Lighthouse kids participated in their first wedding ceremony, the wedding of one of the national Back2Back staff at Lighthouse, Jean Wadson Delvar.
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So Happy Together: Gervens goes home for the summer
Before I moved to Haiti, I believed children lived in orphanages for one of two reasons. 1. They truly are orphaned children without a living biological mother and father. 2. Their parents do not want them and thus, these “orphans” are placed under the care of someone else, operating some sort of institution.
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What the Lunch Ladies Taught Me
The women who cook for Grace Emmanuel School will finally have a new kitchen this fall
Over the last four years, I have spent many hours in the kitchen at Grace Emmanuel School. Many of my fondest memories in Haiti have taken place with the 8 women that work in that kitchen.
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Restoring Families with Scindie, Lighthouse psychologist
This summer marks Scindie’s two year anniversary working at the Lighthouse Children’s Home.
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Congratulations, Kindergarten Graduates!
The 2015-2016 school year has quickly come to a close at Grace Emmanuel School. While the rest of the school was studying and taking exams during the last two weeks of June, the third kindergarteners prepared for their graduation day—the big event that officially marks the end of the school year in Haiti.
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