Thursday

These children are at Azil, a short-term feeding center. The children here are in need of nutritional support. They return to their families when they are healthy and their families are able to provide for them. Azil is run by a lovely group of Haitian nuns. Every child, even the babies, go to church every morning. Here, the 3-4 year olds are waking from nap time.

This little guy is such a ham!

I have been to Azil twice and helped with feeding the littlest ones. The kids wear matching uniforms. They line up the toddlers in these chairs and they actually sit there and eat. They are given sippy cups without the lid that are filled to the brim with a cream of wheat type porridge and they don't spill a drop!

Many of them are joyful. Some are ill and/or lethargic. This little girl will snuggle as long as you will let her - love her!

At a mobile clinic site, these women were peeling/preparing yucca to make cassava.

After the yucca is dried, it is ground into a fine powder.

Then, it is cooked over coals

Looking out the window of a mobil clinic site. Haiti is a beautiful country.

Mobil clinic today.

Mary Ang, one of the mobil clinic midwives, with her supply of vitamins and medications.

Haitian women are so lovely. They wear dresses and skirts only -even when riding donkeys or motos. This mama will have her baby soon.