A New Perspective

Trip Start Mar 04, 2008
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Trip End Mar 12, 2008


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Where I stayed
Pwoje Espwa, Les Cayes
(Palmilla hotels)

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

We spent a majority of our trip at an orphanage called Pwoje Espwa (Project Hope) just outside of Les Cayes. At this orphanage, there are just about 650 children that live and go to school. I traveled with a medical group out of Indianapolis, so everyday we set up a medical clinic. If I remember correctly, we saw just about 100 people everyday. I had just turned 20 a few days before the trip and my job at the clinic was to check blood sugar and to give B12 shots. I am not going into the medical profession, so it was really cool to be able to do that without any sort of formal training.

Though we spent a lot of time working, we did get a day off to go to the beach and relax. It was by far the most beautiful beach I had ever been to. It literally looked like a beach off of a post card. It is so hard to believe that so many people in Haiti live in poverty because of such a corrupt government, but that the beaches and mountains are so beautiful. I guess that this is just another one of life's great mysteries.
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