Earlier this week Katie, our volunteer nurse from Australia, came into the office and asked Emelyne to print a couple pictures she’d taken. She explained that they were for Charileon’s father, who was here to visit is tiny infant son. “It is just the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen!” she said, describing in detail the [...]
I’ve tried to write this blog at least 5 times. I get a few paragraphs in, re read and realize I’m not conveying my ideas right. I’ve been trying to express the all of the changes GLA witnessed the past year, and the emotions that accompanied them all. And then I realized it would be [...]
This little beauty is named Michnaika. We aren’t sure how old she is, we haven’t gotten a birth certificate for her yet. She is most likely a year or older. Her belly is swollen from malnutrition. Her hair is tell tale red (a sign malnutrition in African children). She is not walking, is not crawling. [...]
It’s a little overwhelming to walk into the NICU at the Main House right now. With five fragile preemies and only two incubators, there are CPAT machines crowding sitting space, various tubes running across the floor in every direction and babies taking shifts in and out of incubators. Keeping them all stable has been a [...]
In the GLA office we have a photo chart of every child under our care. With so many new arrivals over the last few weeks, this morning we were trying to recount and figure out our numbers. 49 children at the main house, 59 at the toddler. We currently have 108 children at God’s Littlest [...]
It has been such a success having the first team stay at Ft. Jacques these last two weeks! We usually have teams for one week at a time, and they work very hard and get a lot of work done, but often one week is just not quite enough time to finish up a project. [...]
Teams keep us on our toes! We’ve been blessed with some downright amazing ones this year. They bring so much energy and enthusiasm for projects, whether its at the main house, toddler house or Ft. Jacques, it rubs off on us so often. The plan this month is to start pouring foundation for the [...]
