As an answer to much prayer and hard work, the team received their Haitian passports on Oct. 5th after waiting 6 hours after the time the government said they would be ready.
With the passports in hand, we started booking flights and applying for US Visas.
Yesterday (Oct 6th) Giscard, the administrator of the team and I spent almost 11 hours filling out the US Visa application online, complete with photos being rejected and re-taken, internet problems, and government system problems where all your work would be erased because of a "time out". I felt like putting the person who designed the computer program in "time out"!
On Oct. 6th we also got word that the shipment we had sent to Haiti this summer had finally cleared customs and was ready to be picked up. So while we were working on the Visa applications, we sent two pickup trucks out to Titayen to get the two pallets of equipment that we had sent the end of July. This is an answer to prayer because there is lots of stuff in the shipment that the Amputee Soccer team needs, such as long-sleeved shirts and sweatshirts (it goes down in the 30's F in Argentina at night in Oct.)
Today we go for the US Visas. Please pray that we will be able to get them today so that the team can fly out on Saturday.
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