Christmas Party
In Haiti, Christmas Eve is even bigger than Christmas day. It is also the time when we hold our community Christmas party. This year,...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 29, 20151 min read
Report Card Time!
At the end of each period, the school hands out the report cards to the parents, so that they keep track of their child’s progress in...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 24, 20151 min read
Teacher Training
This week, we are thrilled to have Judy’s uncle and aunt, Jim and Mary, and their family on the Plateau with us for Christmas! The...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 21, 20152 min read
Guest Blog: An Outside Perspective
Guest blogs provide a great way to see Lemuel in a fresh way–from a perspective other than that of those of us who live in the thick of...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 17, 20151 min read
How far would you walk for an education?
Some of our students walk a couple of miles every day…twice. (We are not able to provide transportation to all areas where these...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 17, 20151 min read
Food-4-Work Extended
Imagine plunging into this to start hacking out and uprooting these thorns. Yet, many people in our community are happy to do just that....
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Taylor Conley
Dec 16, 20151 min read
Exam Days…
This week, the kids have testing for their second period of the year (Nov/Dec). Today, as I was on my way to the school office, I...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 11, 20151 min read
A Day to Play
Next week, the school will hold second period exams. Before hunkering down into the stress of exam week, the school staff planned a...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 10, 20152 min read
The Little Things…
Sometimes, it’s the “little” things that touch the heart the most… Although it may appear ridiculously low according to US standards, the...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 4, 20152 min read
What do germs look like?
Last week, veteran guest Kelly Heise did some special sessions for the school kids about basic hygiene and wellness. She talked to the...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 2, 20152 min read
Confronting Crisis: Focus on Prayer
In church this past Sunday, we did things a little bit differently. During the space usually reserved for the sermon, Manis had everyone...
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Taylor Conley
Dec 2, 20151 min read
The Applied Classroom: Community Clean-up
This past Friday, the school did not hold regular classes. Instead, they chose to teach through example and practice by participating in...
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Taylor Conley
Nov 30, 20152 min read
Confronting Crisis: Food-for-Work…with a Twist
Many of you are familiar with Lemuel’s food- or cash-for-work initiatives. These short-term projects enable people on the Plateau to...
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Taylor Conley
Nov 26, 20151 min read
Presenting the NEW Water Truck!
It has RETURNED with a TANK! Today we are THANKFUL for this week’s arrival of the second water truck. It made it’s maiden voyage to the...
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Taylor Conley
Nov 18, 20152 min read
The road is only temporary…
Occasionally when we have visitors or teams come to the Plateau, we ask them to write a post as a guest blogger. In December 2014, a...
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Taylor Conley
Nov 12, 20151 min read
Music Notes and Tissue Paper Flowers
This year, school director Almaïs put two new things on the class schedule: a music class and a craft class. Now, the “craft class”...
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Taylor Conley
Nov 5, 20151 min read
First period exams…
The 2015-2016 school year is split up into four periods: Sept-Oct; Nov-Dec; Jan-March; April-June. At the end of each, the students have...
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Taylor Conley
Nov 5, 20151 min read
How to make a water truck…
Step 1: take the original box off the truck. This is always an adventure, an exercise in innovative technique, and an entertaining...
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Taylor Conley
Nov 5, 20151 min read
Happy Birthday!
As a way of building unity and creating a space for the staff to have fun together, the three departments have decided to put their heads...
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Taylor Conley
Oct 31, 20151 min read
The (future) water truck has arrived!!
Back in May, many of you contributed to a fund to ship a truck to Haiti and convert it into a second Lemuel water truck. After long...
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