A Note From Dixie

Hello from wet and rainy Haiti!

We are in our rainy season and every day it rains! The Engineering team arrives tomorrow to start designing the new orphanage. We are very excited to actually have plans down on paper. Please be praying that all goes well and it does not rain too much so that they can go to the land every day and work on surveying and looking for water where a well can be dug.

Last week we hired some men in the community to go and clean and burn thorn bushes that were on the land. We could not see all of the land because it was overgrown in places. They did a very good job and now we can see all of the wall and land that is there.

On Tuesday, the engineer that we hired to build the wall around the property and the maintenance building sent men to the land to gather rocks and start tearing down the old wall. We were very surprised today when we went to visit and so many rocks are already gathered and put into piles! They have also tore down some of the old wall and are digging the foundation.

The rocks that you see in these photos are all rocks off the surface of the land. None are dug up from deep in the ground. We think there are plenty of rocks for the wall and maybe even some for a house!

Only through everyone's prayers and donations could this be possible. Thank you all so very much!

And life in Haiti goes on...



Dixie Bickel, RN
God's Littlest Angels
Orphanage Director
www.glahaiti.org