Haiti Happenings

This young boy was totally engrossed in drawing with sidewalk chalk.  He and his brother attended a recent VBS for our neighborhood kids and they were the best at coloring.  I liked this photo as a black and white.

It seems the folks in the neighborhood think I run a clinic.  Today I worked on a young man with a large boil on his neck followed by a young boy who had a nasty cut on his foot…in need of 2-3 stitches but I don’t do that.  I recommended a real clinic but the family will not do that.  Tomorrow I will check and re-do bandages.  Hydrogen Peroxide is one of my best friends, followed by triple antibiotic ointment.

The school at Delmas 33 has been in desperate need of expansion while waiting on the new school to be constructed. The folks from Christ Chapel in Kentucky recently built a ‘lean-to’ onto the church, allowing for 3-4 new classes to be taught on the new property next door. This will make a major difference in the quality of education the children receive since they will not be so crowded and the teacher/student ration will be significantly reduced.

I absolutely thought this blog was lost.  I lost my smithhaiti.com address and had tried to get back in to this blog but, after being unable to do so, I gave up and considered it lost.  Today I am wandering around in wordpress.com and decided to try once again and, lo and behold, it opened.  I just have to use the word ‘wordpress’ in the address.  I am so techie it hurts!  Anyone with half a brain could have figured this out long ago…or been more persistent.  Get ready for some new photos and posts!!!