Off to the Haiti Connection and Leogane

Our US team is busily preparing for our next trip to Haiti. Our team includes the following:
Christ Church - Busy Belden (first timer) and Terry Franzen
St. John's - Dianne Pizey, MD; Cynthia Miller, RN; Kris Waters, RN (first timer); Geneva Martin (Cynthia's stepdaughter and a first timer)
Washington, DC - Dr. Bob Rosenthal and his daughter Sarina Rosenthal (first timer)

Everyone except Bob amd Sarina are attending the Haiti Connection Conference in Port au Prince, April 10-12. Dianne and Terry have been asked to present about our clinic experiences at the conference. They have invited Hilda Alcindor, the Dean of the nursing school, and Pere Kerwin Delicat, our partnership priest, to join them in discussing how our clinics are more successful because of the collaborative effort of everyone involved. Hopefully, the new administrator of the Hopital Ste. Croix will be available to talk, also.

Bob and Sarina arrive on April 12 and everyone will travel together to Leogane, where we will stay at the Hopital Ste. Croix guesthouse as in the past. Dr. Alex LeBrun and Emmanuel Bastien, DDS will be joining us for our clinics. We will have our usual contingent of nursing students, plus our nurse Evens Joicin to assist us. Finally, we will have translators to help those of us whose Kreyol remains petit petit, despite our besst efforts.

We plan clinics at Gressier on Monday, followed by clinics at Jasmin on Tuesday and Wednesday.

I will try to update the blog throughout the time we are in Haiti, but the internet is "spotty" at times. Remember, no news is good news!

Please keep our partners and us in your prayers.

Terry