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Pot-Pourri
... we didn’t participate, choosing a 5 day retreat in the most beautiful place we’ve seen in Haiti, the Ile-à-Vache, or Cow’s Island. Tiny island, green, very green, colorful houses, superb and deserted beaches, no garbage (or so little…), good food…
Here’s today a pot-pourri of pictures, with little texts for those of you who like a story with it! Click on one of it, it will get bigger and nicer...
With love,
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Back to the USA
... several, perhaps only God himself, to pull Haiti out of its pit of despair and poverty.
As we boarded the plane, I couldn't help think that God would surely carry this plane full of His servants safely back to Miami......
In the next couple of days, Anne and I started to discuss the whole experience and start the process of debriefing:
You might be interested in what comforts we missed while we were away? Surprisingly those ...
Last Day-Return to Port Au Prince
... with some hand-made wooden or metalwork items too.
I actually did not have much spare cash left-we were told to bring about $100 so we could buy souvenirs,in small denominations so we would not get change of Haitian dollars which are worth less than 40 cents. The day before, we had gone to the Centre Lumiere- a ladies' Christian training school and center, where Kelly had taught. Here, women learned embroidery and domestic science to help them start ...
A little R& R
... hotel-bars-discos! Obviously a different type of neighborhood from Les Cayes. Erwol drove the truck through gates and we parked under palm trees. The beach looked like the type of beach you would see in a travel brochure picture, with thatched umbrellas, small cabanas, an open-air bar, coconut palms and a white soft sand beach. There were only a few European people sitting under one shade umbrella and also 2 o 3 ladies selling their wares of baskets, woven ...
Work and Remembering to Count our Blessings.
... Anne had a couple of patients she saw the whole time, a lady who had undergone a hysterectomy and then sustained a stroke post-surgery and another gentleman who had and amputation of his leg and toes of the other foot, due to a diabetic neuropathy. Danielle and I either worked with Philostene for his second session of PT and 2 burn patients. My burn patient Osnel was 76 years old and a former farmer. He was a feisty man who incredibly had survived second and third ...
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