Friday, December 31, 2010

Annus Horribilis for Haiti

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No one who cares about Haiti can be too sorry to see 2010 end. I wrote an essay that was recently published in a local newspaper and I will ...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Patient 142 Has Been Patient

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We have many challenges in bringing patients from Haiti to the United States for medical care. From the moment John hears a not-so-innocent ...
Monday, December 06, 2010

The Price of Cholera

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Meet Renaldo. I wish we could. He died this morning about an hour after this picture was taken. His mother is terribly sick with cholera and...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

He Should Be Mad: "Haitian Government, Release Those Containers!"

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After watching the weak 60 Minutes report on Haiti this evening, I feel validated in my opinion that Haiti's government doesn't know...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

For Those Who Would Like To Become Haitian: Dual Citizenship

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If you didn't have time to read the lengthy and thought-provoking article by Rene Bruemmer of the Montreal Gazette that I posted last w...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Cholera Update

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I know that in my last post I said that the next post--this post--would be about the problems of a (non) functioning government in Haiti. Bu...
Monday, November 01, 2010

How Do You Have a Country Without a Functioning Government?

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The title of my post is a questions that has perplexed me for sometime. In my opinion, one of Haiti's main problems is that it doesn...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Mass Production of Mud Cookies. Really.

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Maybe you've heard of mud cookies before. If you have, you probably try not to think about it. We have a couple sitting on top the pian...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Cholera: A Terrible Disease

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"We found Radha lying on a thin blanket in her hut. Her body was twisted into a knot of pain. Her hair was wet, saturated with sweat, a...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Valses to Voodoo

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This past Friday we attended a piano concert at Bradley University's Dingledine Music Center. Pianist Joshua Russell played pieces compo...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Big Problems; Little Solutions

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The illnesses and injuries that John saw in patients on his most recent trip to Haiti were staggering. One woman's foot was literally ro...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Haiti and Murphy's Law

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This past Friday just after 3:30 pm, John received an e-mail from our friend Frandy in Haiti. It was short and in its entirety read: A big w...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

See No Evil

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When we are in Haiti, we take a lot of pictures and use them in our blogs. Some of the pictures are of people who are suffering terribly due...
Monday, August 23, 2010

A Grateful Family

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Poor people with heart problems in Haiti are in a lot of trouble. Most of the time, they die deaths that could be avoided with surgery that ...
Friday, July 02, 2010

Some Thoughts from the Ground in Haiti

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Here is an excellent guest post from my husband John. It describes what we saw in Haiti on our recent trip and some thoughts about it. My wi...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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Driving in Haiti--or even being driven--is nothing if not a adventure. The poor condition of the roads and the vehicles--and poor is a nice ...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Earthquake Stories

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It's been remarkable to hear people's stories about where they were when the earthquake hit. Our friend L was driving home from wor...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Through A Mirror Dimly

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We talk to all kinds of different people when we're in Haiti, and we hear different opinions of what the problems and solutions are. One...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

A Haitian Bus Ride

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The day before yesterday, we travelled by bus from Les Cayes back to Port-au-Prince. We decided to take the bus instead of fly back because ...
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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Digging Up Haitian History

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Since John's last trip to Les Cayes, he had been wanting me to meet a German man, Johannes, who lives in the area and knows a lot about ...