In 1994 Aslan completed the purchase of 6 acres of beautiful land. So far our only construction on this land is a small building that houses our well. Water from this well will be used to make cement blocks, as we begin to build our Missionary Training School, orphanage, school, clinic and visitor’s center.
Aslan currently rents space in Ouanaminthe for our visiting mission teams. The accommodations are actually quite nice for a Third-World setting, with tile floors and mesh cots to sleep on. We have a "real" bathroom in an outer building, with a flush toilet and shower.
Ouanaminthe is a sprawling city of an estimated 80,000 people. Disease and malnutrition are rampant throughout the population, but children ~ as always ~ suffer the most. Mission teams enjoy blowing bubbles and playing games with these children in the afternoons and evenings.
Our most recent trip to Ouanaminthe was in July, at which time we cleaned up debris from the partially constructed house of Joseph Israel, Aslan’s staff member in Haiti. After constructing most of the outer and inner walls of a house for his wife and five children, Joseph and we were heart broken when a freak tornado hit Ouanaminthe in May and destroyed six months of his hard work. From September 17 – 23, Aslan will take a team off 8 men to Ouanaminthe to assist Joseph in reconstructing the walls of his house.
For the full 2007 Haiti Mission report click here. |
