With Alot of Help from Family and Friends

Playing with Reuben - Pa helps out to ensure his future looks brighter

I am deeply grateful to both family and friends, who have gone out the way to offer help and assistance to my new ever-expanding Haitian family,

In London, Ellie kindly donated financially - money she really probably doesn´t have, and both Jacq and Airways have been able to offer materials to the orphanage.

Pa has also made a most generous financial donation to help support Reuben, my dance partner and friend from the local Methodist church.

Karen in Israel is purchasing some photographs from the Hiati Picasa collection.

Ying, my amazing American friend and confidante has already sent over clothes, school resources, games, toys and food direct to the orphanage.

Michael Miller, also based in the United States, is working his socks off in collecting a huge shipment of goods.

Two schools in Bogotá have also promised materials and resources. The American Womens´ Society in Bogotá are running an article on the orphanage in their next newsletter to further publicise the cause.

Dr. Gloves made a huge financial donation that will enable us to buy security gates that will finally let J-L sleep in piece and ensure our kids are in a safe environment.

D, a special friend from my Hong Kong days has agreed to help Anderson with his medical condition. Completely awesome.

And these are the donations that i have been made aware of, there well may be others who have donated without my knowledge through increased awareness via Ketchup.

To all these people i thank you from the bottom of my heart, and have made the hardships of this trip (and it has been really hard at times) so worthwhile.

I have sent mails off to UNICEF, Save the Children Fund, and three other International organisations to inform them of the amazing SEED project in Cité Soleil in the hope that this will bring about financial aid that could bring about significant change in the most deprived area in the most deprived country in the Western Hemisphere forever. We have already received initial interest from World Vision, US and more recently UNICEF. I have had a subsequent meeting with Castro Pierre to put together an action plan to develop the project further, and to find further funding and support. I have agreed to oversee educational developments at SEED indefinitely in the hope we can change the lives of some 300,000 people living in inhuman conditions.

Jacq is also a film-maker and we will get together on my return to London to look at its potential as a subject for a documentary.

Please contact me directly if you can offer any financial or material contribution to this crucial project.

As Pa often reminds me, myself and three brothers were never short of anything growing up, even though money was tight. Here in Haiti i have seen the effects of deprivation at first hand. No-one should have to live in such inhospitable conditions, but they do.

Despite the material poverty here in the orphanage, it is incredible credit to J-L, Wilkens and the other staff members that these children enjoy a loving, safe and “rich” family life.