Manieska

This is Manieska
Manieska is a two year old Hatian child from a village that is near the Love A Child orphanage. Love A Child Missionaries Bobby and Sherry Burnette have been following Manieska for quite some time due to her medical condition.

Manieska has a very large tumor that has grown on her bottom.


Love A Child has been working feverishly to obtain medical attention for this little girl. They obtained her passport and had several positive leads on surgeons in the United States who would be willing to do the surgery to remove the tumor.








Little Manieska died on Saturday (November 18, 2006). She was yet another child lost because of the lack of proper medical care in the nation of Haiti. It breaks our hearts to know that this child died because of poverity and not having access to physicians.

Please keep Maneiska's mother in your prayers. She loved her daughter very much and she did all she could to care for her. Just two weeks ago her mud hut was blown away and she's now having to stay with relatives in another hut. Please pray that God gives her a peace during her time of grief.

Suffering doesn't cease with a turned head

I had a speaking engagement just a few hours ago. I had told these people, at an earlier date, that I would let them view our two DVDs about Haiti that we use in raising our support. On the one DVD, there are scenes showing the children of Haiti and the desperate condition that they're in. As the DVD played, 2 women started to cry and turned their heads and said that they just couldn't bare to watch these children in their suffering.

Later, as I talked with the women, I explained how chidren from around the world suffer every day but most of the people of America are oblivious to such despair and hopelessness. I wish that I could take everyone who might read this to Haiti with Roberta and myself for just one day. If you could see, hear, smell or taste what we deal with as missionaries in this nation of poor and starving humanity then we'd have no more problems raising our support. But we can't do that. Words are all that we have to convey our message to you. There will be children and adults die today, while you're reading this. These are people that we might have been able to save but we're not there. Our support is coming in but with your help, we'll be there sooner. Our plans are to move to Haiti by the 1st or 2nd week of January, 2007. We need your support today.

If you would like to take part in supporting us and our work in Haiti, then please feel free to contact us via email at rrhaiti at aol dot com and we'll be happy to put you on our monthly mailing list. You may also use the donation button located on this blog and make a direct contribution.

Remember, even when we turn our heads and refuse to watch, the children are still suffering.

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