A Community for Lafferronnay

Still running - found a parcel of land in the town of Lafferronnay (situated between Leogane and Port-au-Prince) that will accommodate 140 more families. It has nice trees and a little stream that runs through it (above). What a delightful location. We are so blessed that the landowner is agreeable to having so many people on this land for a full year.

While we are waiting for financing approval for this project, I am staying busy by coordinating distribution of some of the shelters for folks who own their own properties.

Meeting with community leaders to impress upon them the importance of individual involvement in this process has been encouraging. In requiring them to strategize for deliveries and setups, I can see some of them standing a littler straighter because they feel they have some control over their own destinies.

Since one of our goals at PPM is providing opportunities that allow people the dignity of self-sufficiency, I have been really pleased to sit back and listen to them contemplate a situation, weigh their options, and make decisions based on peoples' needs. I believe that allowing them to actively participate in the individual shelter projects is soul-enriching beyond what we will probably ever truly know.

That's what this is all about - showing God's love to people in a very tangible way.

His Gratified Servant,
Roody