Claude & Angels. blurb not blog
Following a lengthy apology for
asking, Fedner said he needed $50.00 US for an engineering project at the same
time he needed the $350.00 for the semester.
He said he was not attending seminars and explained those are extra
credit tutorials that professors do for a price. Projects are required for graduation.
A few months ago we paid for some tests and exams because he had developed a
loud continuous noise in his ear that was very distracting. His parents had
taken him to a doctor but did not have money for a specialist. He still has the
noise but says it goes away sometimes.
He also gave me the news that
prompted this note. Boss Claude, the young man who made 3000 prayer angels for
us after the 5 hurricanes, is his cousin, which we knew, but did not know that
he has been very ill. Last I talked with
him his wife had left him with their 3 children and gone to the Dominican
Republic to work. He looked very sad and underweight then but now is dying.
Fedner said he is praying to die. Fenders’
parents are caring for him and his children.
Guess, I want to say, if you
happen to have one of the angels, please hold it and pray for this fine young
furniture builder, father and businessman who has no will to live, now. No more
Claude; no more angels. I gave him the pattern and he registered his “mark”. He
is the second of the young businessmen to die since we left the island. They die young in the remote areas.
Enickson starts his last of 10
semesters in May. His engineering major
is Computer Science and has been the priciest of all. Of course he has needed
more equipment and bigger projects. I spent a week with him and Gamaniel,
another Civil Engineering student, in November. They are now such professional
young men. University in Haiti is serious business. They cared for me as if I was royalty and
make me promise to let “everyone” responsible for their education, know how
grateful they are.
Another Nursing Science major has
4 of his 10 semesters left and that is our last university student who will
graduate with assistance from Round Up For Hunger funds, angel sales, and
support from individual congregations.
The ten other students in vocational
training, college and High School will be graduating in two years. Only one has
had issues with grades. We were unaware his first year was spent as a restovec
for his aunt who refused to feed him if he did not do “special favors”. At the
end of the year he returned to SaP as a skeleton. We enrolled him in a school
that provided meals and he has done well since.
Joe goes in June with the Andover
team and will visit the orphanage in Ansagale that is in dire straits now; he
will talk again with staff at the Guest House that we hope one day to have a
micro lending program for; and look at the clinic in SaP that is now open full
time. He probably will not see Boss Claude. Dang.
