Make Mother Proud

by Allison

If you read Patty’s blog last week, you’ve already heard a bit about Mother. I had the honor of spending the day with this incredible lady on Thursday with the crew over at Landquest. I had heard some of her story before I met her, so I thought that I was prepared. I expected to be moved by her efforts, stories, and struggles. I did not expect to be stunned.

Eleanor Workman left her home in L.A. at age 52 when she was called to do mission work in Haiti. It did not take her long to recognize the need for an orphanage, as children and infants were being abandoned, sold, and even killed in the area everyday. She heard about a hospital that served abandoned infants and immediately offered to take 14 babies under her wing. She dressed six schoolgirls in white uniforms and made the trek to the hospital to bring them home to her empty orphanage. She arrived to find that not a single one of the 14 infants had lived through the weekend. Devastated, but not discouraged, Mother Workman found a doctor in the facility who told her that he was there to record the times of death of 10 more infants over the next few days. “I’ll take them,” she told him. He advised that none of these children would survive the night and told her that she would be crazy to take them. “I’ll take them,” she said again. And that is what she did. Not only did those 10 infants survive the night, every last one of them celebrated their 30th birthdays in 2006.

Today, at 87, Mother is in the process of building a health clinic to supplement her two existing orphanages and two schools in Haiti. She will not stop there. She is determined to make this work, but without resources, she faces even more challenges. That’s where we come in. Landquest’s Flying Fish Project is joining forces with Mother and other organizations, churches, businesses, and individuals in the area to give these children, teens, and adults what they need to survive and thrive in an area where people do not have the luxury of taking the simple stuff for granted.

If you are interested in learning more about how you can help, please visit http://www.flyingfishproject.com. (This site will be available in the next week.) Make Mother proud!

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