The 2019 Health for Haiti class is home safe and readjusting to the cold weather, but our projects continue in sunny Grande Saline, Haiti. Nearly 15,000 gallons of safe drinking water were distributed this week and we expect work on the perimeter wall to be finished very soon. Our next initiative will be to help…
Greetings from Haiti! Today was our last full day in Haiti and we spent most of it at the beach (well, actually we spent most of it on the bus). After breakfast we prepared the toys and lunch we had for the kids from OAEH who were coming to the beach with us. Unfortunately our…
Greetings from Haiti! Today was our final official work day in Haiti. After breakfast we went to Damabiah Orphanage where we planned to hold our last medical/dental clinic and education program. There are 612 children who attend school at Damabiah and 87 orphaned children who live there. As soon as we arrived our team split…
Greetings from Haiti! Today started with another roof top yoga class from Kristy. It finished just as the sun was coming up (I guess Kristy was late to class on purpose). We all enjoyed a breakfast of Jude’s amazing oatmeal and had a more relaxed morning as we did not have to leave the guest…
Greetings from Haiti! Today started with “Rooftop Yoga Club” of Jacob, Ty, Kat, Mikayla, Silvia, Claire, Jen and our teacher Kristy. We felt really good about ourselves until we saw the group at the guest house across the street running, doing calisthenics, and kick boxing on their roof. After everyone was up, we all had…
Greetings from Haiti. Today we said goodbye to Saint Marc and traveled to Port au Prince. Some of us started our day with Kristy’s rooftop yoga which really helps to work out the kinks after all those hours on the bus! After that we enjoyed a delicious breakfast of pumpkin soup and got ready to…
Greetings from Haiti! Today was our last day in Grande Saline. We will miss our dear friends but we accomplished a lot during our visit. We continued our work on the various projects we started yesterday. Our medical/dental clinic saw 121 patients today! The triage team of Brooke, Finley, Hollis, Sam, Robert, Natasha, Roosevelt, Wacnel…
Greetings from Haiti! It was a very full day for our 2019 Health for Haiti team! After a traditional Le Gou T breakfast of spaghetti and hot dogs, we boarded our bus and made the two-hour journey to Grande Saline. Today we were ready to get to work as soon as we arrived. We had three…
Greetings from Haiti! It was a long and tiring but wonderful day for the 2019 Health for Haiti Team. After breakfast we traveled to Grande Saline and began to prepare for our food distribution. The 2019 students took on the challenge of trying to serve 500 families with a food distribution. Thanks to our generous…
After some well-deserved rest everyone is up and ready for a full day. After breakfast we will make the long drive to Grande Saline and begin our work there. This is a fantastic team and we know they will accomplish great things!!
