Bonswa…
Well we are definitely on the second have of the trip. The team has come together really well and they are having a great time…even though they are pretty tired. Today they were able to finish the wall.
Today, Guercy and I went back into Port-au-Prince to start looking at the homes of the Pastors that we have been asked to work on. We were able to make it to three homes. This has probably been one of the harder days for me. For each of the homes that we visited there was enough damage to truly question whether or not they can be salvaged. Below are some pictures and information about the Pastors.
Pastor Esau Juliene has 3 little boys. He pastors a Baptist church with 500 members. His home is like so many others down here and has a roof that is made by putting up plywood, then laying out concrete blocks on their side (basically to take up space and save cost) then pouring the concrete slab. When it is dry then the plywood is removed. If you have any building or engineering background then this probably sounds pretty scary, which it is.
Not only are the walls in pretty bad shape, but the potential of the integrity of the roof being completely gone is fairly high. My plan is to run my pictures by some engineers, but my concern is that we might have to tell these families that their homes will have to be torn down and they will have to start over. There is no such thing as home owner’s insurance here.
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