I try both Moneygram and Western Union who both promise to ‘make your money available right away’. Anyway for different reasons they both suck – they don’t tell you about the restrictions in country, like; ‘you can only have $300 USD’ or ‘I don’t have any cash right now, come back later’, or better still,… Read More »
I was woken at 6 on Monday due to the earthquake off the coast. OK only Magnitude 5.0, but it still made the building shake for long enough for me to think no underground, no lorries in this part of town, mut be an esrthquake. And I am not going mad, google (I mean the… Read More »
I’d made it to the first objective and then had a nice day and a half walking around the Colonial part of Santo Domingo. My plan that (Sunday) afternoon was to get the overnight ferry to Puerto Rico for a few days. But that did not go well. They refused to let me onboard as… Read More »
After 2 weeks of boredom and frustration I have been given the all clear to return to work – thank goodness. This also means my little holiday planned for the following week is on. So armed with my ‘covid positive’ and ‘recovered from covid, fit to travel’ certificates I get a cab to the border… Read More »
I’ve had Covid-19 for way over a week, now and I am really bored. It started with a bit of fun, a night away on a nearby deserted tropical island, but then I woke up on Day 2 with a chesty cough. I kept away from the others for the rest of the day, but… Read More »
There have been very few cases of Covid -19 reported in Haiti. It is almost as if there is no Covid-19, we have been very lucky. We have also had next to no restrictions; we have been very lucky. Since Christmas our hospital has had a handful only, the travel clinic has had just 2… Read More »
So many of you have been so generous already, without request, without a hint, so thank you very much. But now is the time I am going to ask directly for your support and involvement in a fundraising initiative for the hospital. And I promise only once (this trip, anyway). Please help the community I… Read More »
Our Social Worker took me into the NICU today (Friday), to meet a 2-day old little boy. His parents were from ‘the country’ where ante-natal care was virtually non-existent. They think she may have caught some sort of infection from a cat or dog at some point during her pregnancy. When she got into labour… Read More »
So we bought a ‘moto twa woo’ a three wheel moto-cum tuk-tuk to take the children to and from the respite care centre, Maison de Benediction (MDB), because local taxi drives would either refuse to take the disabled children or charge a crazy premium (x10 the fare!). After many weeks of bureaucracy, painful bureaucracy (don’t… Read More »
I think the saddest task I have, but by far the most rewarding, is wheelchair fitting. I do all the children, who clearly have mental as well as physical disabilities. It takes about an hour with the chairs we have as they are so adjustable. But they are not sophisticated and so adjustments involve lots… Read More »