Day 10: June 21, 2011 LAST DAY!

Some of the security guys on the playground :)

Day 10- This is our last day (not traveling) that we have left in Haiti! So sad :'( Today we are going to Bonneau Beach which is about an hour away from the mission. Everyone at the mission is going; it is like a last day beach party. First we visit where they are going to build the new Miriam Center which is a center for children with disabilities whether it’s mental or physical. At this site we visited they already have a playground for the children with disabilities and they have plans drawn up to build the first center (outside the mission) for children with disabilities in Haiti. They also plan to build a church and a school for regular students on the property also. It was funny because the giant security guards and translators were playing on the play ground and one of the founders from the mission told us the reason they are playing on the playground is because before the mission built this playground they had never seen one before.



Kids against hunger packets.

 We split up into groups and loaded kids against hunger packets into our book bags (which feed up to 6 people) and went out to do hut to hut, which is praying with people and inviting them to church (there is a local Christian church in Bonneau). We went to five different houses and took turns praying and handed out all the food we were given. Each hut we visited had between 12-18 people living in it –WOW! Can you imagine sharing a space no bigger than the master bathroom in your house with 18 people? Even after being in Haiti for 10 days the devastation still shocks me and makes me sick with myself over how spoiled we are to live in giant air conditioned houses with our own bedrooms.


Hut to Hut hike (I'm the one with the GA Bag)




Talking with a Hatian family!




TO THE BEACH!



Hanging out in Bonneau




Lunchtime!

 After hut to huts we headed down to the beach where we ate lunch, played American football with Haitian children, and swam. It was a fun relaxing easy way to reach out to the people of Haiti just by simply hanging out with them. I don’t want to leave tomorrow, I could stay forever!



A beautiful child of God at Bonneau Beach!




Amilia a girl in our group is an AWESOME photographer!




Our group on our last day :'( I love every single one of them!



Our last night all together!



Tonight is the night we start our journey back home (at least our American home). To read about our journey home, read the first post I made, as it is detailed there! :) Oh and for those of you who want to see that spider I was talking about that was in our bus on the journey below, someone took a picture of it.



The picture was taken far away and that spider is still HUGE!