THe maggots weren't the only visitors on Tuesday night!

Before the power outage and the arrival of the mmaggots, the Bruel family came by to join us for dinner. Sally, John and their 3 boys are from Burton Valley in Lafayette but have been living here working for Kid ALive for 2 years. They are an amazing couple who gave up the Lamorinda life to live here helping these orphans. They run the Aniha school where the orphans and other poverity level kids study. Most of the orphans do not have birth certificates which creates another bureaucratic problem when it comes to school attendance. In DR one needs a birth certificate in order to obtain certification of education. Among other things such as teaching, and providing basic medical care Sally and John are in charge of the Advanced Educational Fund which serves to support these children into their college studies. What John and Sally are doing and have accomplished in this program is inspriring You can go to the Kidsalive.org website and read more. That's Sally in one picture telling us about the injuries on one of the boys in the Haitian village; he received them in a ritual where the body is given lashes that cause welts.. John is in the other picture proudly telling us that the boy beside him is the very first high school graduate of this Haitian village.