Esther

I was born and raised in what I considered “normal” life.  I have a family, a home, and plenty of food.  It never occurred to me that the most of the world lives in abject poverty.  I had no idea that children were dying by the millions every day from preventable diseases.  It is strange to think that I considered life in Canada as normal.  My first trip to Haiti in 1997 opened my eyes to the way most of the world lives!  I suddenly saw things that I had only heard about.  Children who were born into sewage canals because their mothers had no way to care for them,  starvation that was killing the children of Haiti every second.  They were being eaten by rats, abandoned at the side of the road, and.........worse.

Now I see how blessed we really are:  how much “extra” we have surrounding us every day.  I find I can no longer sit back in my comfortable life and know that there is so much suffering in the world.  I cannot carry on with my life of plenty without thinking about the children who have nothing:   no food, no clean water, no health care and no one to love them.  The future of our world depends on the children and the world that we create for them.  I know that I cannot save everyone, but I am giving everything I have to help as many as I can.  I rest assured that I am doing the best I can for the children of the world, one at a time.  Each life that I touch has the potential to do anything.  He might become a doctor, a farmer, or a scientist.  With hope, the children of this world can do anything and I want to give the children of Haiti HOPE!

Frank

I have always loved children. In 1997, my wife Esther went to Haiti to help in an orphanage. She came back to Canada, a changed woman. I saw her desire to help these suffering children, and as someone who also loves kids, I followed in her desire to help. In 2000, we started Kings Kids to help some of these children receive medical care that they could not get in their home country. We had no desire to become full time missionaries or operate orphanages. We were content to help as many children as possible with the resources we had available. However slowly over time, my passion for these hurting kids and this hurting Country (Haiti) grew.

In November of 2009, our organization was approached about the possibility of King’s Kids taking over a small orphanage just outside of Port Au Prince. I arranged to go down to Haiti in January 2010 to assess whether we would be able to do this. I don’t think it was a coincidence that I was booked to arrive in Port Au Prince on the Morning of January 13th. I was sitting in an airport when I found out about the Earthquake. That is the day that my passion for the Children and the country became a desire to devote my life helping this forlorn Nation.

I arrived in Port Au Prince less than 24 hours after the quake. The city I knew so well had been transformed into something unrecognizable. Landmark buildings were reduced to piles of rubble. The fear and pain was evident in the eyes of the thousands of injured people waiting near the airport, when we arrived. I quickly learned that one person could make a difference and I realized that this was the plan that God had for me. It was not sitting in a comfortable office in Canada, listening to people’s problems. It was here in Haiti, helping people, that without my help, would not receive any.