We still have no water coming in from the public line.  They have been working for two days now trying to get everything put back together.  We are saving one tank of the public line water to filter through machines that we have here to have drinking water for the kids and to have water to make baby bottles.  So I hired someone to carry buckets of water in from the river.  It is still rather dirty from the last rain.  If you asked me how it feels after taking a bath in the water....my answer would be clean...but itchy.

But it does settle some after it sits for a while.  I think we filled them both up 6 times today!  That is a lot of water. A few years ago we were without water for over a month.  Two or three days is nothing.    Hopefully we will be back to normal tomorrow.

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I was blessed with everything that I put on my last minute needs list.  YEAH!  Some items came in on the semi-container.  Someone in Indy purchased a DVD/VHS player and a NEW TV!  We are all so excited about it.  One of the first movies I put in was Bengi.  Some of the kids were scared and ran and hid.  They had never seen anything like this before(the TV).  But most of them LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it.  It is next to impossible to find kids tapes in Creole. So all are in english.  IF you would like to help out hang on to any old tapes your kids have out grown. We will put them on the next container!

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Cute kids.....all with a story

Abandoned outside clinic gate in April 08

Abandoned in RC since early 2007

Ronel abandoned for several years......Kobra's mom has not been back for over 2 months

Pray for God's will in these kids lives.  Pray that there families will return.  Pray that they fill loved.  Pray that God helps me to make the right decisions with their lives.  Pray that they can find homes.

Check out this blog and pray for this wonderful family tomorrow morning. Thanks!

Liberson is still here.  We  had to drain some more fluids off.  He is in better spirits and asking for meat 24/7. Here is the before picture.

Here he is on Thursday.

His little arms are so thin and tiny. 

We had the radio on that day and he was actually trying to dance.  Funny guy!

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These two brothers came in to clinic this week.  There father died four years ago and this left the mother to provide for all children. There are five.  The two brothers are having a difficult time gaining weight and keeping up with the other kids there age.  Just not enough food for all of them.

This is Lomy, he is five years old, and weighs 28 pounds.

This is Jonas, he is 3 years old, and weighs 22 pounds.

There feet are both full of bugs that have infested their feet and layed eggs under the skin.  Each day we have to dig the sacks with the tiny worms out of the bottom of there foot.  Very painful.

Pray for the mother and here other kids.  She weeds people's gardens and sell produce from her garden when she has it.  She seems to be trying her best to make ends meet, but can't.

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This child came to clinic this week.  She was 15 months and weighted 11 pounds. I was going to admit her in the RC, but wanted to test her for HIV first as she was losing weight very fast and had some weird skin stuff going on.  This is the parents first child they are both in their early 20's.  The child has breastfed for 15 months.  She tested positive for HIV.  We sent the whole family to be tested at a large lab and they will return next Thurday so we can talk.  So young and there first child.  They both were very concerned about her and her health.  Pray for them. Pray for them as they will have to make some decision about her care and life soon.

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Thanks to all that checked on the floor tiles for me.  I believe the best price and the kind I like can be found here at Sam's Club.  If any of you purchase items there and would not mind picking up some for the RC that would be great. Contact me and I will let you knwo how to get them to us. Thanks for your help!