Team Albert

I've lost track of how many teams Albert has lead to H2H but I remember his first trip the best -  because it was my first trip to Haiti too!  We had never met before and neither of us had any idea what the powers-that-be had in store for us... shortly after that first trip Albert became one of H2H's board members and I moved to Haiti.

Albert's teams always have a good balance of fun and productivity, and this team this week didn't disappoint!

They kicked off some big construction projects....

Putting a roof on a new classroom at H2H's School:

Breaking ground on the Guesthouse's new kitchen:

And building some shelves in the Children's Home kitchen:

The team also did their part to eradicate Haiti's rat population:

We drove up the mountains to give food to the community of Lavanj (I don't actually have any pictures of the food give away because it was almost dark when we got the truck unstuck on the way up!):

Took the H2H kids to Taiino Beach:

And built relationships with the kids by being willing to "do it Haitian style":

The team did a fabulous job taking pictures themselves so please check out my Facebook page to see the pictures they posted there as well.

Mobile Medical Clinics

I feel like I have slept more in the past 24 hours than I have in the past 2 weeks!!

We had a Medical Team from Chilliwack visiting and we did 8 mobile medical clinics over 12 days - 2 of them were in northern Bouva/Grande Savande which included 2 very long travel days.  We dropped the team off at a Guesthouse in Port-au-Prince yesterday afternoon and made it back to Grande Goave well after dark... it seemed to only take a few minutes to shower and fall fast asleep :)

There are too many pictures to share them all so I'm going to focus on our Tetebef clinic.

Some of the church leaders slept at my house the night before and we loaded their donkeys up with medicine and supplies at 4:30am... so they could walk up the mountain & arrive before our estimated start time of 8am.

The team "ordered" 22 motorcycles and we did some serious off roading as we climbed the mountain. The path had been damaged by Hurricane Matthew but we managed to make our way up.

Leader of our pack:

When we arrived in Tetebef there were many more people than we expected and we were happy to see that the church members had patched together a building so that we could do the clinic out of the sun.  The original church building had been destroyed in the 2010 earthquake and the temporary church they rebuilt was once again destroyed in Hurricane Matthew.

Triage:

Doctor's examining room:

Pharmacy with a view!:

Chronic back pain clinic:

A little something extra:

It was a great clinic day and over 150 people were seen by the team.  Many were sick with malaria, typhoid, respiratory track infections and joint pain that was making life on a mountain almost unbearable.

The trip back down the mountain proved to be tricky for the motorcycles and the donkeys.  The team ended up walking down some slippery sections and the donkeys refused to carry the supplies... so their owners took over!

This was just one of the clinics - there were 7 others with similar adventures & many clinics had over 200 patients seen.  It was truly a blessing to be able to serve alongside of this medical team!