The house next door to us on Rue Petion burned yesterday with our security guard Evan's uncle inside.  Our group of volunteers sprang into action with by getting him out to the street where they covered him with wet sheets, and Gwenn got here in time to rush him to the hospital.

Unfortunately, Jean Claude (the Uncle) later died from his extensive burns, but my amazing group of volunteers spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning out the ash and water from the structure.  Gwenn and Nick have also raised enough money to completely fix everything, so despite the tragedy of losing Jean Claude, the family will be taken care of in regards to their home.  Difficult day.

Rhett and I went over to Pinchinat refugee camp, and while we were there, some group showed up and started blaring the new version of "We are the World" over the loud speaker - pretty cool to hear that song and watch all these little kids faces as we spent the evening with them.  

We've also given out hundreds of clean water systems, so it's been a pretty damn good week...

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 Without heavy machinery, every rock has to be moved by hand, with all the rubble broken up with picks and moved aside.  We are going to recycle every part of the broken building in its reconstruction.  

I'm really fortunate to have eighteen volunteers who just showed up to spend nine days to help with my efforts - WELCOME!

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