It’s Christmas, the time of year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus and for giving to others. Maroa-Forsyth boys basketball head coach Chad Cluver and his wife Sherry are sponsoring “Hoops for Haiti” to increase awareness of what remains to be done as we near the second anniversary (Jan. 12, 2012) of the Haiti earthquake.
The Cluvers are sponsoring a basketball fund-raiser Jan. 10 in the Trojans gym to help the women in Haiti who literally saved the lives of their Haitian son and daughter, who the Cluvers brought home from Pittsburgh in mid- January 2011.
In a note to everyone who supported them and their two children when they were in the late stages of adopting two Haitian children. Then the earthquake struck, devastating the Cluvers at the time, but they were resilient and they now have two Haitian children.
Cluver wrote, “We are amazed. . .” Read More
It’s Christmas, the time of year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus and for giving to others. Maroa-Forsyth boys basketball head coach Chad Cluver and his wife Sherry are sponsoring “Hoops for Haiti” to increase awareness of what remains to be done as we near the second anniversary (Jan. 12, 2012) of the Haiti earthquake.
The Cluvers are sponsoring a basketball fund-raiser Jan. 10 in the Trojans gym to help the women in Haiti who literally saved the lives of their Haitian son and daughter, who the Cluvers brought home from Pittsburgh in mid- January 2011.
In a note to everyone who supported them and their two children when they were in the late stages of adopting two Haitian children. Then the earthquake struck, devastating the Cluvers at the time, but they were resilient and they now have two Haitian children.
Cluver wrote, “We are amazed. . .” Read More
The baby’s name was Herbert and he was sure to die, just like his mother, who took her last breaths bringing him into the world.
The boy’s father, poor and alone, brought the infant to the BRESMA orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, hoping someone would take pity on Herbert, who was small and sick after surviving his first five weeks on nothing but sugar water.
After telling Herbert’s father, on several occasions, that there was no room at the orphanage, 30-year-old Ben Avon native Jamie McMutrie caved in.
“We told the dad we would take [Herbert] and love him until he dies,” Jamie said in a telephone interview from Haiti. “I stayed up for what seemed like 24 hours a day for weeks feeding him through a dropper.”
After receiving his share of cuddling and proper nutrition, Herbert survived. He is now a happy 2 1/2-year-old living the in the United States with his adopted family…
Read more at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette