A roller coaster Saturday!

On Saturday we went to New Life Orphanage to visit the disabled children there.  The orphanage does a great job of caring for them in a difficult situation.  We brought toys and held and played with them for the morning.  They were very sweet and so happy to see us and get some new toys. 

This little cutie is what they call an "earthquake baby".  He was born 2 weeks before the earthquake and his parents died in the earthquake, he was found by aid workers in the rubble.  Thank God the Haitian mama's wrap their babies in lots of blankets in the winter time!

They had beautful gardens there that are tended by the able-bodied children that live there.  The boys have their garden...




And the girls have their own!  The two people that run the orphanage encourage the girls to learn different trades and to not believe they are only meant to clean house, cook and take care of children.  Very progressive!!

That afternoon, we had our first cholera case arrive at the clinic.  The young boy was carried by his mother but had already passed away by the time she arrived.  We spent the rest of the day maintaining a campfire to boil water so we could boil all the families clothes, then bleach rinse them.  It was bitter sweet morning that become a sad, difficult day.