Bercy and LeVeque 11/24/13

    After lunch on Sunday we took a tour of the other two MOH campuses. The first is called Bercy, the land was given to MOH by the Haitian government under the condition that they provide a home and care for the senior community. MOH is also building a transition home for their orphans to live in after they are 18 as long as they are still in school and volunteer with the seniors. They have already opened a school at this campus as well. They are building dormitories for mission visitors as well, this campus is on the water so this campus will be more resort like. At first I was confused because I thought that was a lot of money they could be using on other things but I quickly realized the nicer the campus the more visitors and income the mission will have and the more people will come to see the faith and culture of the Haitians. Jolie also pointed out that the more projects they come up with the more Haitian jobs they are creating.
     The LeVeque campus is where the mission is where, I understand, MOH is caring out the "blue to block" project. Building cement block homes for people still living in Samaritan's Purse blue tent houses. They have also built a church in this community that offers a message in Creole and sign language because there is a large def community in this area. This is when I noticed how eager the children are to be held and loved even by strangers. A lot of them walked through the village with us and I was surprised by how much English they knew. There was one little girl who was asking about all the members of a young family and another who was dancing and singing "the dougie"! I still can't imagine where she learned it.
      We had to be back to campus well before dark every day because it is dangerous after dark (I kept forgetting to ask if it was just dangerous for us or for anyone) This is when Jolie and decided we were going to have to pay for the whole week of internet but in hindsight I'm really glad we did. No matter how early we had to get up Jolie and I couldn't stand to go to bed before 10pm so we ended up with a very specific routine that involved sitting on the rooftop deck for about four hours every night waiting for our family to get online and talk to us.

Ocean View at Bercy Campus

One of the classrooms at Bercy School, the others did have desks but I was entertained by the dancing Santa in this one

Church at LeVeque, I really enjoyed that the churches were open air

This picture is sideways but it is a picture of a large cross at the bottom of a hill made of large rocks

Rooftop Views

Pretty much everywhere we went in Haiti there were mountain views in one direction 

and ocean in the other