FHM medical team visits us
The medical team relaxing in the guest room.
I apologize that I have fallen a little behind in my posts. It seems that there are so many things to tell about, and just not enough time to write them all down! So let me start by catching you up with the visit from Kathy and the Duke Chapel Medical Team.
The team spent a week in Haiti, primarily working at the FHM clinic in Blanchard. They stopped by our clinic here in Leogane for one night before heading back to the states. The team was composed of seventeen doctors, nurses, and health care volunteers from Durham, NC. After unpacking their bags, setting up their beds, munching on sugarcane, and being treated to a tiaka dinner (see earlier entries if you aren’t familiar with tiaka…), invited us to join in their nightly devotional and
Shilpa and I trying to figure out how to eat sugarcane...thanks Joelle!
reflection. Those of us here at the clinic–Shilpa, Julie, Hannah, Genvieve, and myself, do not actually have professional medical training,
Joelle and Hannah shaving sugarcane
and therefore our work does not directly involve providing health care for people here in Haiti. It was very inspiring and very touching to hear the team recount the stories of their experiences in the Blanchard clinic. I was really proud to be associated with FHM after hearing about all of the wonderful things that other FHM volunteers were doing for the Haitian people.
