My wife and I are going to Haiti right after Christmas for a two plus week trip. We are both excited (especially her because she has never been), and the area is a fishing village where I have not been in the past. I will post more, but what We will be doing is working through the mission I have written about in the past nwhcm.org In an area called the Mole.
We are willing to do anything, but because we are both nurses, the plan is for us to work in the small clinic and to go out from the Mole to remote fishing villages to run clinics as well. We can take medications and see whoever comes to us for help and treat accordingly the best we can with what we have and refer people with higher levels of needs as appropriate.
It should be a great experience, and we are thankful to be going. I know that Smurphy and BBC both support this mission, and several others here have given money in the past when I have gone. I'm not asking for money, but it is quite expensive to go.
I would like to buy some goats while I am there to give away. The way this works is you give a male and female goat to a family with instructions to not eat the goats. When the female goat has babies, those are to be sold for money and the female will produce milk that can also be used or sold then repeat. There has been tremendous success with this, and it is often a life changer for a poor family who has nothing.
This is a heavy, heavy voodoo area too. Sometimes it's scary; I have had a machete raised to me in a threatening manner before. Voodoo is no joke; I have been in voodoo houses and voodoo temples. They literally make your skin crawl with the overwhelming aura of pure evil. Anyway, I'll write more about this in the coming months, and I think it will be quite an experience that some of you might enjoy along with me thru Madjacks. Again, I'm not asking for donations or praise or anything else. I just want to share the ride with my friends here. Feel free to get my number or email if you wish, or just post here. Thanks!
We are willing to do anything, but because we are both nurses, the plan is for us to work in the small clinic and to go out from the Mole to remote fishing villages to run clinics as well. We can take medications and see whoever comes to us for help and treat accordingly the best we can with what we have and refer people with higher levels of needs as appropriate.
It should be a great experience, and we are thankful to be going. I know that Smurphy and BBC both support this mission, and several others here have given money in the past when I have gone. I'm not asking for money, but it is quite expensive to go.
I would like to buy some goats while I am there to give away. The way this works is you give a male and female goat to a family with instructions to not eat the goats. When the female goat has babies, those are to be sold for money and the female will produce milk that can also be used or sold then repeat. There has been tremendous success with this, and it is often a life changer for a poor family who has nothing.
This is a heavy, heavy voodoo area too. Sometimes it's scary; I have had a machete raised to me in a threatening manner before. Voodoo is no joke; I have been in voodoo houses and voodoo temples. They literally make your skin crawl with the overwhelming aura of pure evil. Anyway, I'll write more about this in the coming months, and I think it will be quite an experience that some of you might enjoy along with me thru Madjacks. Again, I'm not asking for donations or praise or anything else. I just want to share the ride with my friends here. Feel free to get my number or email if you wish, or just post here. Thanks!
