God is very important to the people of Haiti.  Many personal conversations, especially those looking forward are backward, include either ‘Gras a Dieu’ Grace of God or Si Jezi vle ;If Jesus wants’.  Eske w passe bon weekend? (Did you have a nice weekend?) I might ask.  Oui, Gras a Dieu (yes, by the grace… Read More »

This has been bugging me for a while now, there was only one row still in place.  Luckily the rest were scattered around nearby.  It was quiet today as Mardi Gras is a public holiday, so I fashioned some new poles and got it back working again.  I put it on our Social Media channel… Read More »

We can buy milk relatively expensively in town, maybe 70p a litre.  Or we can buy it from our friends at the orphanage for half that.  So we do.  It comes unpasteurised though so we pasteurise it ourselves.  I’m not sure it’s particularly hygienic, but after a couple of weeks and a bout of the… Read More »

I am still getting used to the heat, each day is mostly over 80 degrees (call it late 20s C).  And as we are in the northern hemisphere it is technically winter too.  Obviously it cools down over night, but its still warm.  I still sleep on top of the bed (wearing my birthday suit)… Read More »

The HHA team have long had a dream to get a good fresh water supply into the hospital.  Our current well is fairly shallow and so suffers from surface contamination, pollution , effluent andsuch like.  Before Christmas we got the nod from the great folks at Living Water that they would come and sink a… Read More »

One of our great supporters at the hospital is Handicap International (HI) and in mid-January we received a container load of wheelchairs.  540 to be exact.  We roped in some of the security guards, and the grounds team to unload them – and even one of our contractors who came looking for money was roped… Read More »

At the hospital: There is very little covid here, and protective measures are minimal.  Very few folk wear face-masks but we do have them in the hospital when inside a ward.  And we have a handwashing station at the entrance to the hospital.  It started life as a ladder with buckets in it and bars… Read More »

After 2 weeks the abandoned baby has made huge steps, if only metaphorically.  The scabies is now cleared up and the impetigo long gone.  When I first met her in the Paediatric Ward her skin was so bad her fingers were firmly stuck together and contracted, her skin peeling and shedding, blisters all over her… Read More »

Just after New Year I was bitten by mozzies whilst doing a bit of DIY in the Volunteer Village.  It was getting late but I wanted to finish the job so didn’t bother with the mozzie spray.  So inevitably I took a couple of bites.  A little itchy but heh, not a problem.  After a… Read More »

I will always know December 17, Tim’s birthday.  Last year gave me another reason to remember it though.  At the hospital the Medical Director sought me out to tell me of an abandoned child and ask me what I was going to do.  She was around 12 months old and had come for treatment.  Her… Read More »