Last Day Celebrations

Today was our last day of rebuilding at the Lambi site and I am happy to report that we finished and presented all six homes to brand new homeowners at about 4:30 pm.  We started the day off with a short trip to Grace International Village. Here about 7,000 families still live in tents and hopefully wait for a chance to move into better living spaces. Also we visited the boys and girls homes (orphanages) where residents ages range from infants to adults. The village also run elementary school program for kids living in tents and the homes. We were privileged to visit temporary classrooms and visit briefly with the kids.  Grace village, in addition, runs "The Lord's Kitchen", a feeding program for the families living in the tents. Then we scrambled back to the work site where all hands were on deck to finish painting the last two homes. That was group work at its best!  Ours was an outstanding team! This was my first international service trip and I had the great pleasure of working alongside such great wonderful, hardworking and caring people.  After a long week of construction, it was rewarding to watch the six blessed and beautiful families graciously, with tears of joy and relief, receive the keys to their new homes. From Leogane, Haiti Mesi anpil - Lami Adebayo