another family wedding

Taking a break from Haiti posts to throw up a few frames from my cousin Sarah's wedding in Indiana this weekend.

haiti: slideshows at cm-life.com

Just wanted to throw out there that there are slideshows on CM-Life's website that show some more of the Haiti experience.

Street photography

My Heart's Home portraits

Heart Cry International volunteers

Just for some eye candy, here's a couple more frames..candid portraits of the kids.

Jocelyn

Shelda

Belo (bit of a sulky 3-year old :)

Ketura

haiti: cm-life layouts

Many thanks to my buddies Jake May and Sean Proctor, photo eds at CM-Life, for designing and executing this layout...

haiti: more of the street

Few more looks at Port Au Prince...

haiti: work projects

Lonny and Steve did a lot of work to make furniture and shelving for the orphanage. The children loved it and always wanted to be part of things. I sanded and varnished some, but mostly documented.

haiti: friday feature (yolette)

Page layout by my dear friends and CM-Life photo editors Jake May and Sean Proctor; column and photo copyright Libby March for Central Michigan Life.

haiti: pretty light

Jonathan and pretty, pretty light.

haiti: panoramics

Few more frames from around Port Au Prince...

haiti: yolette

Yolette Louis, 4, laughs in the arms of Nichole Osborn, of Farwell, at My Heart's Home Orphanage in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Osborn is a volunteer from Heart Cry International, a Mount Pleasant- based nonprofit organization supporting the orphanage. Osborn's main project was to assess the fifteen children living at the orphanage in order to place them in a homeschool system which will be implemented soon in the coming year. Osborn and seven other members of the HCI team volunteered for eight days in Port Au Prince and completed several building and painting projects, including the construction of seven bunk beds for the children, shelves for the pantry, a desk and shelf for the office room, a large table and benches for the kitchen, a learning center with large worktable and shelves, and the painting of the front hallway and upstairs main room.

Yolette is four years old and one of the most amazing people I've ever met, a pint-sized Mother Teresa in Haiti...this is a preview to a column I'm writing about her that will run in CM-Life tomorrow. More about her later, but know that she's incredible...

haiti, chaos, beauty

Whenever we traveled anywhere I played with street photography and was constantly struck by the raw humanity of Port Au Prince and beyond. I met someone on a neighboring rooftop who argued with me that Haiti was not beautiful, but I couldn't concede the discussion politely.

To me, it was a jungle of color and rubble and hard loveliness. It was raucous and gritty and fascinating and struggling and brimming over, I couldn't get enough of it...

haiti: fifteen faces

There are fifteen children living at My Heart's Home, the orphanage we missioned at in Port Au Prince. Ten are orphans adopted by the home, four are children of the pastor, Magnus Delva, at the house, and one little girl is the daughter of the house mother, Suzette.

Magdaniel

Solomon

Ketschua

Fedeline

Joshua

Jocelyn

Shiloae

Kenlie

Leicka

Ephraim

Djoulie

Shelda

Belo

Jonathan

I miss these kids bad already.