Cross Cultural Medicine I’m gradually, creepingly learning some rules about being a good health care provider in Haiti. Here are a few of the things I’ve learned: 1) If you want to awe your patients with your insight into their health problem simply observe which part of the body has a rolled-up piece of fabric tied around it. A cord tied tightly around the...
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I am ashamed to admit that I did not really want to go on the recent trip with Aid For Haiti. I have been before and knew full well what I was getting into. Long days of travel over rocky terrain, steep mountain passes and endless days seeing patients in between sleeping on the floor and using a smelly outhouse. To be honest, I would have rather stayed at my...
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Explore the experience of a cholera treatment team in Haiti with this new video. Take a look at the video and ask yourself how God would use you in Haiti.
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Séminaire pour les Leaders Évangéliques 2011 Jean Rebel, Northern Haiti The Lord blessed us with a wonderful week of training for pastors, elders, and evangelical teachers. We were invited about a year ago to conduct a week of Bible study in this area by a brother from Minnesota who had family living in this region. AFH made two investigative trips there last fall...
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Dear Friends, Hello again! I’m sorry I have not written in so long, but I’ll try to catch you up on what has happened. I went home on the 18th of May, as planned, with my brother. The last week I was at HGM in Despinos, we had a team of 20 come for medical outreaches. We went to 3-4 places and saw 800 people that week. I was tired by the time I went...
Learn MoreDear Friends, Wow! I think I am the most blessed person in Haiti this week! I had so many responses to my last email! Thank you so much for taking time to send me a note! I’m going to try to write as things happen so I don’t forget them. April 28, 2011 Today we went to clinic and had an average day. It was so hot and muggy here, I prayed for rain to...
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Dear Friends, Thanks so much to all of you that have emailed me. It is a huge blessing and pleasure to get news from you all, and I really appreciate your taking time to make my day special. I wish I could write to each of you individually, but then I would never get anything else done, and I have to work around the finicky internet service. So put your name in place...
Learn MoreIts been said that Haiti is 70% Catholic, 20% Protestant, and 100% Voodoo. While this may be true it only partially tells a riveting story. The story of God working throughout the history of Haiti to spread the life saving message of his son is an utterly fascinating one. The following is a non-experts attempt to tell part of this story. During Haiti’s early history...
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Dear Friends, I have been here two weeks now and God has blessed me so much already! For those of you who don’t know, I am staying at a mission just outside of Port au Prince. The couple here, Joel and April, are going to be in the States for furlough and there is another girl here, Jessica, who has been here for three months and knows how things are to be run....
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As to how things are now compared to about a year ago, it would certainly depend on where you were standing. Some places, while many empty lots remain, much of the rubble has been cleared. Other places, Port-au-Prince in particular, they say only about 5% of the rubble has been cleared. In some places there are bodies yet to be recovered. There are more foreigners than...
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Disaster. Dreadful. Disturbing. Deadly. These were all terms used in describing the 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti just over a year ago on January 12th, 2010. The epicenter located 10 miles southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince, was in such proximity to the capital that it caused widespread devastation and brought all commerce to a standstill. When the dust settled...
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