My story

This past Easter, I experienced something, that in a short amount of time, changed my life.
I went to Pwoje Espwa Sud in Les Cayes, Haiti.
PES is an orphanage established by Fr. Marc Boisvert, an awesome priest with grit (sooo necessary in this country) and a more than caring heart. If you wanna see what he looks like, google him-he's practically famous.
PES houses over 600 children, educates thousands, and provides a safe environment for both parent-less orphans and economic orphans.
When I say economic orphans, I mean children whose parents are still alive but cannot afford to take care of their child, so they either sell them as a child slave so they are guaranteed food and shelter, or they put them out on the streets. Some orphans in Espwa have come out of child slavery and are happy to call this place home.
The orphanage was originally intended to be for boys only, but girl after girl showed up and Fr. Marc couldn't turn them down.
The children range from babies to young adults. Some boys who went through the orphanage are now employed there, and give back to the place that gave them everything.
In Haiti, a lot of houses are made of miscellaneous items, random slabs of wood, and tin. The streets are crowded with hardworking people, striving to provide for their families. 80% of Haitians live below the poverty line. That's insane.. People think America's gap is big, well look at that statistic and try to make the same argument.
In Espwa, the children live in stable homes with beds, a house mother, clean clothes, food and showers. SHOWERS! That's huge in Haiti. A lot of Haitians typically bathe and wash their clothes in a stream/canal, so this is quite advanced. Thanks to this orphanage, these kids live a pretty good life.

From now on I am not going to refer to Espwa as an orphanage or the children as orphans because those words typically have negative connotations and I don't want any negative thoughts associated with Espwa because it is a great place.

Odd place to end this post but I'm running out of brain power...