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have taken in a dozen Haitian teens since 2012. Vanah Paul
was one of the frst to join the House of Moses mission.
The House of Moses homestead was no free ride, but it was
a safe place for Vanah to fnish growing up. "They had rules.
You had to show leadership. You had to be willing to go to
school, to learn, to follow the rules. Then you could make it,"
she explained. The structure was good for her.
"When the Barneses took me in, I started to open up to
them," Vanah said. She told the Barneses about her fascination
with airplanes.
"The way she described her dream was by saying, 'When
I was little, I saw an airplane fly over, and I said to myself,
One day I am going to work on those things,'" John Barnes
said. "Her statement would have been deemed foolish by many
around her if they had heard these words. Initially this dream
was so deeply hidden within, she would not even share it when