May 16, 2011

Dear Friends,

On April 26th I was privileged to visit Hospitals of Hope in Wichita, Kansas. HOH is a wonderful ministry, directed by Dr. Michael Wawrzewski, that has been working around the world in medical missions for many years. We are truly privileged to be partnering together with them. Over the past several 6a00e552ed7b7588330154325a1e23970c-320wi months, they have transformed three 40’ long by 8’ wide by 9.5’ high steel containers into a state-of-the-art medical clinic for Aslan.  The pictures you see here do not even do justice to how beautiful the workmanship is on these units. Special thanks to Michael and his talented staff members – Kyle (primary builder of the units), Leta (office manager), Daniel (International missions coordinator) and the others who give of their time and many talents.

The units are set to ship from Miami on June 3rd and arrive in Cap-Haitien on June 6th to June 8th. From Cap-Haitien, each unit will be taken by truck to our Aslan property in L’Acajou where they will be off-loaded by crane onto the foundation we’ve built for them. We have a team of 5 guys coming down from New Jersey who will then help us connect the units together
into one building and unpack all the equipment. Once that’s completed, the clinic will be ready for our first medical team to come down! Words cannot 6a00e552ed7b7588330154325a2e54970c-500wi



express how much this will mean to so many people. Literally thousands of lives will be saved – from chronic but preventable conditions to life-threatening illnesses that are routinely cured here in the US with simple antibiotics or other common treatments. Pictured above is our hospital X-ray department, with the developing room to the right.

But this is just the beginning and not the end! We’re just getting started here, because we still have many, many things to do to prepare the clinic for full-time service.  Conservatively, we need another $20,000.00 right now for these important extras.  The costs below are approximations based on the amounts we’ve spent so far and include the following:

 

  • $ 1,000.00 porch, sidewalks and sitting area for clinic reception area;
  • $  500.00 tent for triage;
  • $ 5,500.00 steel roof for clinic;
  • $  500.00 landscaping around clinic (to prevent soil erosion);
  • $ 1,000.00 permanent plumbing – clean water supply from well to clinic;
  • $ 1,500.00 permanent septic system for clinic;
  • $10,000.00 security fencing (complete stucco & ironwork)

We are so grateful to each and every one of you who have given to help this dream become a reality. Almost everyone talking about Haiti today complains about how little of the money raised to aid Haiti after the terrible earthquake has actually helped the people of Haiti. In reality, most of the promised aid still hasn’t reached Haiti! This is very frustrating for people and discourages them from wanting to continuing giving to disaster relief. Aslan, however, is different. After the earthquake, we received almost $120,000.00 in relief funding, and with the completion of these units 100 percent of it is spent. We are proud to say WE ARE OUT OF MONEY! So, if you give more to us to help in Haiti that is exactly where it will be spent! Please pray about it right now – this moment – today. The need is still there. The need is as great as ever. Why most of the aid promised to Haiti hasn’t reached Haiti no one knows.  But the money you give to Aslan is being spent to change lives!

May God bless you all!

Craig

Pictured below is our dental department, with it’s own X-ray equipment and a compressor to run all the equipment you would find in most dentist offices here in America. I know, I know, the chair looks like Darth Vader. It’s just a trick of the camera.  You guys know it never hurts to go to the dentist :O

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