School Foundations are finished! Work begins on the first floor!!

School Foundations are finished! Work begins on the first floor!!

Work on the first floor of the new school building in Sassier is moving ahead.  Despite terrible weather in November and December (including Hurricane Tomas) and the Cholera outbreak, work on the foundations for the new 18 room school building in Sassier has been...
School Foundations are finished! Work begins on the first floor!!

Haiti Payday: Food For Work

Today (Sunday) is payday for the all 525 workers (non-qualified labor in USAID-speak) on our road rehabilitation project.  These workers have worked 24 days over the past 5 weeks, doing heavy manual labor on the roads.  Since this is a Food-for-Work project, the...
School Foundations are finished! Work begins on the first floor!!

Medical Mission to Haiti January 2011

Coming to an area where almost no primary health care is available, the medical team will treat nearly 1000 patients during the clinic.  Malaria, typhoid fever, chronic hypertension, diabetes and vitamin deficiencies are among the commmon ailments treated. Thanks to...
School Foundations are finished! Work begins on the first floor!!

Haiti: A Doctor’s View

Dr. Clint Griffin, M.D., Holland Hospital Emergency Room This is my first trip to Haiti and I didn’t really know what to expect. My partner at work at Holland Hospital, Michael Page, had been to Haiti several times and was very familiar with the setting and the...