Mission Journal
An Old Proverb and a New Insight By: Maxwell Kligerman
This essay was written by Maxwell Klingerman, a former Duke Global Health Student (Duke University) and currently a medical student at Stanford, who worked with Family Health Ministries to provide GIS Mapping of the Leogane, Haiti healthcare systems pre-and post...
Have we accomplished anything?
When we agreed to come to Haiti for FHM, we knew we were to be here only temporarily. We were on location to help out until a decision could be made on the next guesthouse manager. As I write this, the decision making process is still in progress. We are orienting...
Better use for styrofoam
View from the Christianville site, near Gressier, looking east towards the mountains Many of you know Dale and Ingram from their days at CODEP. I first met them there and had been interested in visiting their new site. On Friday, they spent time with us at...
Clean water distribution, anyone?
Another projects that Jeff has been making slow progress on during our stay in Haiti is getting engaged with Living Waters for the World. This is a Prebyterian Church-based organization that partners with US churches and local operating groups mostly in Latin America...
Solar anyone?
Jeff has been looking over Apex UMC electricity bills since we've been here, with the objective of understanding how the church can manage usage and costs even better. So it was natural on Wednesday for him to be "talking kilowatts" when we visited EDH (Electricité...
Lucky day – guesthouse a “beehive” of activity
Tuesday was a lucky day. It rained during the afternoon and brought most of us inside. People were buzzing around the guesthouse, and we got a lot done.We are pleased that the frog infestation didn't reappear with the heavy rain, although there were quite a...
List making
We've been thinking about what's next for us, as our last 10 days in Haiti are in front of us. We've made plans for our exit next Wednesday to Port-au-Prince, and on Thursday to the airport, and we have fun plans for this Friday night with a Building Goodness team. We...
A bit of paradise
On Kathy's recommendation, Jeff and I went to Ile a Vache this weekend. It's really a bit of paradise, just off the southern coast of Haiti. So this post will be mostly photos. The hardest part was getting there. We took a bus to Les Cayes from the Leogane bus...
Finding the strength to keep going
Jeff and I are volunteering in Haiti for just 47 days. Yes, we're counting. We have less than two weeks to go before we leave for the US. Being a "short timer" is making me appreciate even more the people who are here to stay in Haiti. And I wonder how they keep...