Building the Orphanage

December 2013

January 2014

Haitian team contracted to dig the foundation...Formula for Life: providing hope and a home for the orphans and employment for the locals...



January 2014- concrete block donated by Sheets and Sons...leftovers from the TinCaps stadium construction.  A downtown Fort Wayne Indiana baseball stadium.

January 2014 - cement mix from Erie Haven or Berne Ready Mix; wheelbarrow and shovels donated by Irmscher Construction

 

January 2014 - Useful buckets we sent down on an earlier sea container.



January 2014

February 2014- With no heavy construction equipment, the buckets came in handy for the intense manual labor.

 

 

 

Taking a needed lunch break.

 

February 2014 - The foundations are coming along.

 

February 2014

 

February 2014

 

Starting to come together quite nicely...notice the plantain (or banana) trees in the background - Fr Andre had those planted as a start to becoming self-sufficient and to sell to support the orphanage.

 

 

The manual labor of the Haitian people is building this orphanage.

 

April 2014

 

1st Well is dug! The money to finance this well came from USF students/faculty/staff who gave up more expensive drinks and chose water instead during Lent...and then donated the money saved to Formula for Life. If you would like to help...because another well will need to be dug...please let us know

May 2014

 

Father Andre enjoying the running water from the newly dug well.

 

All the concrete block was manually made.

 

 

Standing in the multipurpose room looking to the girls' residence and to the left not in the photo is the boys' residence.

 

May 2014

 

 

May 2014

 

 

July 2014

 

July 2014

 

The walls are getting higher!
the NEW Our Lady of Perpetual Help Orphanage

 

 

Residential is 2 stories high now; foundation being poured by hand for kitchen + cafeteria; taking a break...this project employs about 30 Haitians each day (general labor and specialty)

 

October 2014

 

October 2014

What is going on here? The crew is using bamboo to support the first floor ceiling as it is prepared for wood and cement which will become the floor of the upper unit.

Bamboo supporting the first floor ceiling while workers prepare it for the second floor construction

 

 

October 2014

 

80 masons were hired for a one work day...they were paid anywhere from $5-$22/day depending on their skill level.

 

If you ran or walked in our 5K event, donated silent auction items, wrote an article about us, invited us to speak, sent a monetary donation, or prayed for our success...you made this home possible

 

Wow! over 80 workers were hired yesterday! "A historic day" according to Father Andre...this is really a big deal.

 

October 2014

Father Andre also hired cooks to provide a meal for the workers.