This Cary family may not consider it amazing that they’re moving to Haiti to operate an orphanage, but I do. This story demonstrates the powerful impact of private actions – no government program required. From the Cary News:
The Apex family is moving to Haiti, where Nick and Gwenn will be house parents to about 20 orphaned and abandoned children at the Haitian Children’s Home near the city of Jacmel.
Since 2005 the family has taken numerous mission trips to the Caribbean nation; they also traveled to Haiti to adopt Nico. During a 2007 mission trip, tropical storm Noel touched down in Jacmel and the Mangines saw its devastation first hand.
But Nick, 29, and Gwenn, 32, weren’t too bothered by the country’s severe weather, or its high risk of infectious diseases such as hepatitis A and E and typhoid fever. The fact that 80 percent of Haitians live below the poverty line wasn’t a deterrent to the Mangines either. Instead, all these hard truths were reasons they wanted to go.
