..some of the things we have learned…

I cannot believe my month is coming to an end and I’m heading home in a day.  I apologize to all my friends and family for not e-mailing more often, if at all, but it’s been very hard to put thoughts into words — I found myself mostly unable to do much more than take [...]

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A Little Goes A Long Way…by Mary Jean

It was HOT today – I mean really really HOT.  Our house mate said over 100′.  I used to always use the expression Africa Hot. But now when we hit those 90′ days in Erie PA with humidity at 100% and no breeze to be found from the lake –  I’m gonna say it’s Haiti [...]

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Speechless…. by Mary Jean

Can you believe I am speechless?  I have been here for three days and I don’t know how to begin to describe where I have been and what I have seen.  The poverty in Haiti is beyond comprehension.  People routinely go 2-3 days without food.  I think many of them are hungry all the time. [...]

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we can’t forget…

So it’s now the beginning of week 4 — Clara and Jen have returned home and Mary Jean has arrived safely to share this last week with me.   I have noticed that I am starting to break down a little so I decided to take the day off (my first since April 3rd) for [...]

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You would have to see it to believe it….

I walked into the clinic about 1/2 hour after everyone this morning to find Jen and Clara walking away from experiencing a geyser of pus & flies coming out  of a 16 yo boy’s knee who had just had a long leg cast removed because of an infection brewing inside his knee.  I don’t know [...]

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So many changes in such little time

This has been an incredible week!  We have a new P&O (prosthetics and orthotics) team working at Advantage Haiti this week — they work through Healing Hands for Haiti in Port au Prince but are spending the week in collaboration with us here in Les Cayes.  They are just fantastic!  And oh yes… they come [...]

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PT FOR HUMANITY

Well, here we are. As previously mentioned by all others, the drive from PAP to Les Cayes was difficult to process and to explain. Les Cayes, which was not affected – structurally – by the earthquake, has been very welcoming. Upon our arrival, the rainy season began. Us all having been forewarned (thanks CC) were [...]

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The faces of Haiti…

We, PT for Humanity, have been in Haiti working with Advantage Haiti for 2 weeks now.   They have been an incredible 2 weeks for so many reasons and in so many different ways… we are each still trying to understand it all and take it all in. The one thing we have all agreed upon as [...]

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Halfway through the week….

and as Tara just said it has been a truly amazing and I must add humbling experience.  In just 3 days I feel like I have experienced more than one could in a year or 10 back home.  The Haitian people are so gracious and appreciative of what we are doing here (as illustrated by [...]

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This post is from Tara….

I was having technical difficulties with my log in so Susan logged me in. This has been an amazing few days. Difficult to put into words.  Driving through Port Au Prince was heart wrenching.  Beautiful mountains and the sea is really blue however complete devastation in between. I certainly have not processed it all.  I [...]

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