It is officially the rainy season here in Haiti. It has rained almost every night for the past three weeks. It’s usually hot and humid during the day and rains at night. The past few days, it has been overcast and rained during the day. The good thing about days like this is it isn’t as hot. The rainy season has made everything so green around here. It looks so different compared to the dry season. The bad thing about the rainy season is the mosquitoes have arrived in force. You cannot walk anywhere without getting attacked.
We are very thankful for our malaria medicine, even though every week we all have a night or two of crazy dreams. One of Amy’s favorite past times is spraying them in our home with a lavender and citrus oil. She usually spends at least 30 minutes every night killing the pests with her spray bottle – and that’s inside our house. Imagine how bad the mosquitoes are for those in tents and for those in huts without windows or doors….and what a health hazard the mosquitoes pose.
Nehemiah Vision Ministries has been blessed with a Curtis Dynafog machine that we use to fog for mosquitoes. The pemetherin compound used in the machine is very effecting in killing the mosquitoes, but not dangerous for people. You can fog an area and it will be free of the tyrants for a couple of days. We fog the school buildings before classes start and the church building before worship on Sunday’s.
Tonight I went into the village of Chambrun and fogged the Nehemiah Children’s Home. The mosquitoes were unbelievable! I ended up spending about a half an hour fogging different areas of the village. As I was walking, I would go through clouds of them and you could feel them hitting you in the head as you past. I had a crowd of about a hundred people walking with me and wanting me to fog their area.
It reminds me of a Haitian proverb. “A koz pwa, ti woche goute gres.” It translates: because of the beans, the little rock gets to taste the grease. When you buy beans, sometimes you might find a little rock or two. After they harvest the beans, they lay them out to dry. When they gather them up a few little rocks get picked up too. The rock only gets to “taste” the grease because of the beans. Because of the Children’s Home, many Chambrun residents got some benefit – a night or two of relief from the mosquitoes. Actually, because of Jesus, we all get a “taste” of salvation.
The chemical we use in the fogger is very expensive. When we purchase it in Haiti, it is $500.00 for five gallons. We can buy it in the States for $255.00 for five gallons and then we have to pay about $100 in air-freight and another $50.00 or so in duty. We are still checking with our air-freight company to make sure they ship it for us.
We’d like to get more of the chemical and use it as part of our evangelism efforts. Loving others by killing bugs. Whatever it takes. If you’d like to support NVM’s mosquito ministry, please let us know!
We are very thankful for our malaria medicine, even though every week we all have a night or two of crazy dreams. One of Amy’s favorite past times is spraying them in our home with a lavender and citrus oil. She usually spends at least 30 minutes every night killing the pests with her spray bottle – and that’s inside our house. Imagine how bad the mosquitoes are for those in tents and for those in huts without windows or doors….and what a health hazard the mosquitoes pose.
Nehemiah Vision Ministries has been blessed with a Curtis Dynafog machine that we use to fog for mosquitoes. The pemetherin compound used in the machine is very effecting in killing the mosquitoes, but not dangerous for people. You can fog an area and it will be free of the tyrants for a couple of days. We fog the school buildings before classes start and the church building before worship on Sunday’s.
Tonight I went into the village of Chambrun and fogged the Nehemiah Children’s Home. The mosquitoes were unbelievable! I ended up spending about a half an hour fogging different areas of the village. As I was walking, I would go through clouds of them and you could feel them hitting you in the head as you past. I had a crowd of about a hundred people walking with me and wanting me to fog their area.
It reminds me of a Haitian proverb. “A koz pwa, ti woche goute gres.” It translates: because of the beans, the little rock gets to taste the grease. When you buy beans, sometimes you might find a little rock or two. After they harvest the beans, they lay them out to dry. When they gather them up a few little rocks get picked up too. The rock only gets to “taste” the grease because of the beans. Because of the Children’s Home, many Chambrun residents got some benefit – a night or two of relief from the mosquitoes. Actually, because of Jesus, we all get a “taste” of salvation.
The chemical we use in the fogger is very expensive. When we purchase it in Haiti, it is $500.00 for five gallons. We can buy it in the States for $255.00 for five gallons and then we have to pay about $100 in air-freight and another $50.00 or so in duty. We are still checking with our air-freight company to make sure they ship it for us.
We’d like to get more of the chemical and use it as part of our evangelism efforts. Loving others by killing bugs. Whatever it takes. If you’d like to support NVM’s mosquito ministry, please let us know!