Kenzie Watson, a recent university graduate, is in Haiti for a few months to help wherever needed. She is currently teaching ESL to many interested older teens and adults, taking care of children, and assisting Rebecca in administrative work. Over the next several weeks, she will be taking pictures of all the sponsored children and sending long-overdue updated photos to each of our sponsors. Manno (our Haitian sponsorship coordinator) and Rebecca are still working with the kids to get their earthquake experience on paper, and those letters will be coming to you with the next newsletter in early August.

If you would like to send a gift to your sponsor child, now is the time to do it! We have a large team leaving this Friday, June 11, and they are able to take gifts down as long as you can get them to our office by 5:00 pm Thursday July 10. The other option is to send a gift down in the next container which will be leaving the last week of June, which means the gift must be dropped off at either our office or Shawna's house by June 24. For either option, please put your gift in a large ziploc bag and clearly label it with the names of who it is to and from.

Office address for drop off: 34629A Delair Rd., Abbotsford
Shawna's address for mailing or drop off: 3325 Firhill Dr., Abbotsford, BC V2T 5L4

The group leaving this Friday is actually two teams with varying agendas. Pastors Gary Stevens and Scott MacKenzie from Vineyard Church in Abbotsford will be conducting a two day conference. Over 100 pastors from all over Haiti are registered to attend. They are also hoping to help coordinate, along with other team members, the distribution of food from one of our containers currently at the Port-au-Prince port. H2H board member Albert Wiens will be leading his team of 7 to kick-off the construction of our brand new kitchen/food depot/dining room/guest house. Team members will be uploading pictures and writing about their experience onto this blog while they are away - stay tuned!

The second group travelling down leaves on June 11 and is a medical team consisting of 4 doctors, several UBC Medical students, nurses and a dietician. They will be conducting many medical clinics in the grande Goave area, including check-ups for every one of our H2H orphans.

On the home front, our Abbotsford warehouse and the Pacific Community Church warehouse are still collecting food for our containers. A youth group from Arnold Community Church in Aldergrove has been bringing in donated food and helping us to sort, package and weigh in preparation for the container loading. If you would like to get involved in helping at the warehouse, please give Lia a call at our office: 604-850-0021.