Nancy and I depart for Jeremie, Haiti next week. It will be just the two of us but we'll be taking 8 duffel bags of medicines, handmade dressesand babyblankets, donated skirts/T-shirts and boy shorts, various electronics and laptops, work gloves. . .the generosity of many, many caring folks is on display in our home, all vying to be part of the 400 pounds of "relief" we'll be taking with us.
We'll be helping finish the 2-room school building we started last year, and installing water cisterns so the flush toilets at the church in Chiraque and the Good Samaritan old folks home can, in fact, flush! We hope to restock critically-shot items in the Gebeau Clinic pharmacy, and to deliver blankets/formula/money to Nurse Dorismond's newborne program. We'll be checking in on the high school's computer lab to make sure the back-up batteries and laptops brought in prior years are working, and delivering the first Chromebook and micro wall projector to the newly-finished school in Chiraque so they, too, can begin to invite the world into their remote mountain village.
We hope to catch up with Pastor Felix, who we discovered last year had lost a leg to an injury that we in the U.S. would have easily survived. After we departed last year, we arranged a prosthetic leg and physical therapy, and the good Pastor has been navigating his mountainside parish (almost) as good as new, and way better than any set of crutches would have allowed.
We'll keep you all posted as to this next installment!
John Smith
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