Haiti Update 3/9/10

The GO Project continues to see hope abound in Haiti, like the new beginning for Juli and her kids.

After the earthquake destroyed their home, Juli led her children on foot to the Dominican Republic, 50 plus miles away. For weeks, Juli’s kids lived in makeshift refugee camps. Then, in early February, Juli and her 47 orphans came to The GO Project’s Orphan Transition Village. There, Juli told us that, “Home is where people love you.”

From Adrien Lewis live in Haiti:

They won’t forget the day they were all huddled under the mango tree watching everything around them crumble. In fact there was a bit of commotion and one of the little girls began to cry…she was afraid the earth was shaking again. They won’t forget walking to the DR and then being shipped back to Haiti to find themselves in a new orphanage with 200 other children.

They also won’t forget all the people that loved on them the last 30 days…all of you! Some of you came to Haiti to love on them with your time, others continue to love on them through prayer and support. Now, less than 2 months after losing everything, they are home again. So in some ways they are better off than they were before this mess, because they have felt your love from across the ocean. They know, that in the name of Jesus, the one they call on as Lord and savior, they have been protected and provided for.

Thank you for being His hands and feet.

Thanks to you, Juli and her kids found “home” in our GO Project family, but today, with the help of Burns & McDonnell, Juli and her kids are back in their new, permanent home. Juli can now sit on her porch and watch her kids play beneath her beloved tree. Home. Hope. Haiti.