Bon Samaritan Orphanage

Consider the home you live in.  Now take away anything that runs on electricity including your television, refrigerator, microwave, blender, coffee pot, light fixtures, fans, and air conditioning.  Now take away your stove, furniture including your bed, carpeting, tile, and windows.  Subtract from that your walls, doors, and floor all together.  What you have left is a basic home in Haiti.  Many Haitians live in homes made of thatch with dirt floors.  Temperatures in the summer can reach over 100 degrees with humidity around 70%.  Would you be able to endure this kind of weather without the luxuries of your own home?

Many homes in Haiti are like the two above.

A home in the city.

A Mother at home with her children.  Many children do not have clothes.

A man making a basket at his home.

A little girl doing dishes at her home.

The entrance to Ann's home in Haiti.

Young adults prepare peanut butter at the orphanage.  The orphans make peanut butter every Saturday to last all week and buy fresh bread every morning.

Two children gather water to drink.

A woman does her laundry.

A child eating at his home.

Ann's Husband Mark driving everyone to their destination.

Mark walking two children to school.

A child is bathed by his Mother.

A bathroom in Haiti.

An electrical hookup for a home in Haiti.

An electrical outlet in a home in Haiti.

Power poles running to a Haitian village.

Another power pole in a village.

A Mother prepares dinner for her family.

Typically, food is prepared over a fire on the ground.

Ann with lunch that she just purchased from the marketplace.

A young adult prepares food on her home-made stove.

Two men transporting building material.

A man working hard to break needed stones.

A bridge used frequently throughout the day.