Prayer Requests:
- Sister-in-law Beth starts aggressive chemotherapy Sept. 12th.
- Schools to start in Haiti early October so many folks need money
- Starting up of the mission dental clinic
- 3 more months of hurricane season
- Teams looking at trips in early 2012
- Haitian government needs to choose a Prime Minister (Prime Minister has more power than President)
Travel: Hurricane Irene ended up delaying our return to Haiti by two days. Thankfully we learned of our flight cancellation while still in Michigan and changed our Delta tickets for no additional fees. While Haiti received some hard rain, not much damage occurred as the storm's path took her farther North than first predicted.
Agriculture: Cory's trees look good. The banana plants look better than when we left in early July but many are still showing some disease problems on parts of the campus. The 144 breadfruit trees we carried to Haiti handled the trip well. This variety is being promoted and distributed by the Breadfruit Institute. Breadfruit trees produce huge quantities of fruit that can be used like potatoes. This variety does not grow too tall and the very good quality fruits contain the highest protein content of 90 varieties analyzed.
Monday after our return home Cory and Genner set out for a "sustainable agriculture" training seminar in Pignon, Haiti. The rivers between us and there dropped enough since the storms for him to drive through. Sadly, cooking banana plants along the road all the way up into the central plateau are dying of Panama disease. Cory shared with the group various topics including pest control, soil fertility and grafting.
Medical: Pastor Rigo reports that only 15 or so people received a diagnosis of Cholera since the rains began. Clinics remain low, as is normal for this time of year with finances being directed to the start of the school year in October. We brought back 3 bags of donated vitamins and medications to be used at the clinic. Pastor Rigo and Dr. Wilnie will be discussing how to set up a dental clinic as a full set of dental hand tools and two zero-gravity lawn chairs have been donated to help the people of Fauche.
School: Eli, Anna and Kris started our school year back up on Aug. 29th. Nine weeks remain in the curriculum we started in January. We still learned a lot during our time in the USA but did not complete any formal school. We will start a 'new' school year in November.
Kid's Club: Club activities run every Sunday all year. With school being out the leadership took advantage of the additional time and started an English class. Anna received an invitation to help with this class shortly after our return. She will answer questions and help with correct pronunciation. We hope that an agreement can be arranged to have the dentist check out the dental health of the children attending club. Thankfully most of the children of Fauche have been vaccinated, as this is not true in Port Margot.
Creole Health Books: Cory gave 43 books to the participants of the agriculture seminar at Pignon. The books continue to be distributed though a book store in Cap Haitian. Soon arriving by mail from Germany will be a book on natural medicine in the tropics that we will be translating into Creole as part of a new book focusing on plants and agriculture.
Haiti: From the limited reports we have heard so far, The Billy Graham Evangelistic Crusades went well with many being saved and continuing to attend church. The Haitian government remains unable to do much due to continued rejecting of Prime Minister candidates.
Happy 14th Birthday Eli! September 3.
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