Matalyn

Location: Gressier, Haiti
Region: Central America & Caribbean

Bonswa Velvet Ashes Ladies,

In November 2013, at age 23 I agreed to embark on my first 7 day journey to Haiti to volunteer in a medical clinic, spend time in an orphanage, and do some outreach prayer throughout a few villages. The year 2015 is coming to an end and I am writing this short bio from Haiti. The place that my heart never left since the firs time it hit Haiti’s air. This was not the plan I had envisioned for my life. Leaving a full time job in the Emergency Department, friends, family, pursuing a high education to move to a third world country was not on my bucket list. God had other plans for me. Plans that took my dreams for my life and future and shattered them into a million pieces. Little did I know, He would take those shattered pieces and my heart that was turned upside down and remake them, remold them, rebuilt them, reshape them, and show me exactly what He intended to do with my life for His glory. Two years later, as a single 25 year old, I am still being exposed to what life in the ‘poorest country in the Western Hemisphere’ looks like, smells like, and functions like. Thank you Velvet Ashes for connecting me with women around the world who I can share struggles, challenges, rejoicing,trials, and tribulations with as evidence that although at times I feel I am in this alone- I am reassured I am not alone.

 

With love from Haiti