Today was our last full day in Haiti and it was a great one. We spent the whole day at the beach with the kids from Pastor Vincent’s Orphanage and Jude’s family’s orphanage. Late last night we made sandwiches for the kids to eat at the beach. The sandwiches were raw hotdog, ketchup and mayonnaise on…
It was another busy day for the 2015 Health for Haiti class. We left the guest house at 8:30am and headed for Cite Soleil. Today is the 5th anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. There are remembrance ceremonies going on around the country and our bus had to pull over for President Martelly’s…
After a very long and emotional day yesterday, we all needed some time to rest today. We had a later (8am) breakfast and an optional trip to Leglize Sur La Roche, a local Haitian church. Jude gave us a ride in the back of his truck and we took seats on the second level balcony.…
The 2015 Health for Haiti crew got an early start and was on the road for Grande Saline by 7am. Team Water left first in the red truck while the rest of us enjoyed a luxurious ride in a new air conditioned (!) bus. TeeJoe’s bus was not up to another rough ride to Grande…
Today was an educational and upbeat day for the Health for Haiti 2015 team. After a very challenging day in Grande Saline yesterday, we all enjoyed a slightly later wake up call and breakfast. At 9am most of us went to downtown Port au Prince for a guided tour the “Musee du Pantheon National Haitian…
Today was another great day for the 2015 Health for Haiti class. We were up and out very early to make the long drive to Grande Saline. Although we only had to travel about 70 miles, the trip takes 3 to 4 bumpy, bumpy hours. When we arrived in Grande Saline hundreds of children were…
Today was another great day in Haiti. After breakfast we went to Cite Soleil, the largest slum in the Western Hemisphere, to distribute food to over 500 families. We went to a church and school run by Pastor Vincent. The students made bags of rice, beans, oil and fish for distribution. The food was purchased with money…
Our second day in Haiti started early but we were all ready to go after a good night’s sleep. We began our day at Mother Teresa’s Hospital for Sick Children. We helped feed the babies and then held and played with them. There are so many babies, and they seem to really enjoy being held. We were…
I am so happy to report that today, the same day that the 2015 Health for Haiti class arrived in Haiti, our container was delivered to Grande Saline!!! Below please see Dr. Robinson and the truck driver posing in front of Grande Saline’s container. So many people worked together to make help deliver the water…
Greetings from Haiti! It has been a very long day, beginning with meeting the bus at 1am at SUNY Broome and heading for JFK Airport. Check in went pretty smoothly, especially considering that we had 23 travelers and 36 suitcases. We had some time to have a little breakfast at the airport and then boarded…