HolliBickel Deep Thoughts, Notes from the NICU, Our Kids, TattleTales 2 Comments
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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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An empty balcony, sure sign it’s the rainy season in Haiti.
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Our hearts ached today. It’s hard to grieve in the morning and then have the whole busy day ahead of everyone. I think everybody wished we could take the day, but that is never really possible. The main house is kinetic all day long. But if you happen to be at the main house late [...]